Modernity's Metonyms: Figuring Time in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Stories

Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach—exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy, historiography, to natural history—Modernity's Metonyms moves beyond the consideration of nineteenth-century Spanish literary modernity in terms of the problem of representation. Through an…