"La recepción de la cultura extranjera en la Ilustración Española y Americana (1869-1905)". M. GINE, M. PALENQUE y J. M. GOÑI, Bern: Peter Lang, 2013. 605 páginas.

Abstract

Professor Marta Giné and other collaborators compile in this book the perceptions of various foreign aspects at the time of the Spanish Enlightenment. Something remarkable is the contextualization and the help provided to the reader, who is approached by the mentality of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie. French poetry was well received, as well as theater, with examples such as Zola and Alexandre Dumas (son), who marked trends and literary styles in Spain, as well as painting. Later, the influences of countries such as Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, as well as the Far East, areas that are taken as exotic, wild, far away, are analyzed. In short, this book collects information from different fields and disciplines and its bibliography, its documentation to deal with the subject, the approach to the reader of these circumstances of cultural contacts, etc. is to be admired.