Tag Archives: Carmen de Burgos

Farming, Gardening, and Female Labor: Carmen de Burgos’ “La mujer agricultora” (1903)

Posted on May 29, 2020 by rebeccambs

Now that the crazy and unpredictable Spring 2020 Covid19-semester is finally over, and since I’ll now be spending my entire summer in Kansas rather than in Spain and Mexico, I am working to shift my focus back to writing and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, First-wave spanish feminism, History, Literature, Spain, Women | Tagged agriculture, Carmen de Burgos, city, country, femininity, gardens, Joaquin Sorolla, maruja mallo, museo sorolla, rural, science, spanish literature, technology | 1 Comment

1900s Madrid, in Narrative and a High-Resolution Map

Posted on October 19, 2019 by rebeccambs

This fall semester I’m teaching three literature classes at K-State, one of which is a seminar I based on a few of my past and current research projects related to early 20th-century Spanish literature. The texts are attentive to the … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Literature, Modernity, Spain | Tagged 1920s, books, Carmen de Burgos, digital humanities, La rampa, madrid, maps, modernity, novel, spanish literature | Leave a comment

A Century of Gastronomic Maps: From Ramón to Barcelona’s Feria to Iberica

Posted on March 19, 2019 by rebeccambs

As I’ve mentioned several times before, I’m very much a map nerd — I LOVE reading maps, finding creative interpretations of cities and spaces to display in my office (like my literary map of Madrid and my caricatured map of … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Literature, Spain | Tagged Carmen de Burgos, culture, food, gastronomy, maps, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, travel | 6 Comments

Multiple Modernities: New essays on Carmen de Burgos (review)

Posted on June 17, 2018 by rebeccambs

Review: Anja Louis and Michelle M. Sharp, eds. Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist. Routledge, 2017. 224 pp. I recently finished writing a review of Anja Louis and Michelle Sharp’s new volume of essays on Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, First-wave spanish feminism, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women | Tagged book review, books, Carmen de Burgos, spanish literature | 2 Comments

Fashion and the Fine Arts in Carmen de Burgos’ Avant-garde Novel, La mujer fantástica

Posted on January 25, 2018 by rebeccambs

I’m going to start the new year with a post on my most recent article, “Fashion, Ekphrasis, and the Avant-Garde Novel: Carmen de Burgos’ La mujer fantástica (1924)”, which was published in the open-access journal Ciberletras in December 2017. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women | Tagged 1920s, art history, avant garde, Carmen de Burgos, ekphrasis, Empress Eugenie, fashion, novel, Paris, vanguardia, Winterhalter | 4 Comments

Urban Spain through Literature: Literary Maps of Madrid and Barcelona

Posted on September 19, 2017 by rebeccambs

Anyone who has ever traveled with me knows I am a bit obsessed with maps – I’m either wandering around following my route via Google Maps, attempting to get my bearings and update what I refer to as “my internal … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Feminism, History, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women | Tagged Barcelona, Carmen de Burgos, madrid, maps, Margarita Nelken, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, urban studies, verbena | 2 Comments

Illustrating Spain’s Silver Age of Literature: Carmen de Burgos, Ramon, and “Bon”

Posted on July 21, 2017 by rebeccambs

I’ve been working for several months now on an article on Carmen de Burgos’s 1924 novel La mujer fantástica (The Amazing/Fantastic Woman), and my research has been focused a lot on European art history and the diverse visual imagery that … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women | Tagged 1920s, avant garde, Barcelona, Bon, books, Carmen de Burgos, madrid, Pablo Picasso, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, spanish art, spanish literature | 4 Comments

Maternity and Madrid: Gendered Spaces in La rampa (1917)

Posted on September 30, 2014 by rebeccambs

I have officially decided that September is the fastest-moving, shortest month of the (academic) year. It flies by quicker than winter break. One day you are rather calmly introducing the course syllabus and getting to know new students… the next … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Literature, Modernity, Science and Medicine, Spain, Women | Tagged 1920s, Carmen de Burgos, gender, literature, madrid, maternity, motherhood, Spain, urban studies | 9 Comments

Exploring Female Identities in Carmen de Burgos’ “La rampa”

Posted on February 24, 2014 by rebeccambs

One of the first novels to spark my interest in early twentieth-century Spanish women’s literature was Carmen de Burgos’ La rampa (1917). As an urban novel, the narrative explores the effects of modernity not only on the residents of and … Continue reading →