Modernity, representation, and personality in Antonio Flores's Ayer, hoy, y mañana (1863-64)

Citation

Ginger A (2005) Modernity, representation, and personality in Antonio Flores's Ayer, hoy, y mañana (1863-64). Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies, 6 (3), pp. 209-222. https://doi.org/10.1179/146827305X58010

Abstract
This article explores a highly important but little known text of 19c Spain, Ayer, Hoy, y Mañana by Antonio Flores. The text explores the contradictory and tense relationship between modernity and personality. It suggests that the primacy of representation within modernity undermines and contradicts modernity's concern with individual personality. The article analyses Flores' vast work within the context of the political thought of the time, showing how Flores engages with but seeks to undermine leftist thought.

Keywords
Flores Nineteenth Century Spain; Modernity Personality; National characteristics, Spanish, in literature; Spain Social life and customs; Flores, Antonio, 1821-1865; Spanish literature 19th century History and criticism; Literature and society Spain

Journal
Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies: Volume 6, Issue 3