Madrid: History, Literature, and Culture

This course explores cultural production in and about Madrid during key moments of the city's history from its establishment as the capital of imperial Spain in the 16th century through its reinvention as a major international tourist destination in the late 20th. Multimedia in orientation, the course draws on representations of the Spanish capital in literature, painting, photography, maps, music, and film. Topics include: self-invention in the court city, modernization and its discontents, Madrid and Spanishness, provincialism versus internationalism. In Spanish.