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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Majismo, the Spanish National Character, and the Elite Cultivation of Cultural Patrimony
2 Swaggering Majos: Performing the Masculine Ideal
3 Performing the Bullfight: Spanish Bodies as Noble Spectacle
4 Majas, Elites, and Female Agency
5 Majismo and Elite Identity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“Tara Zanardi’s Framing Majismo addresses ambitious questions about the role played by art in the formation of Spanish identity for the Bourbon monarchy during the Enlightenment and in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is a work of admirable erudition and complexity, bringing together a broad range of sources—primary and secondary, historical and theoretical. A model of interdisciplinary research, Zanardi’s book has implications for eighteenth-century studies more generally—for people interested in monarchy, questions of identity, gender studies—and will generate a great deal of additional discussion and research, always the sign of a truly important publication. It stands as a defining study for art history of the period.”
—Melissa Hyde, University of Florida
