Praised for its value as a political and/or historical romantic novel, Amalia is also one of the first and most detailed novels of the period to offer modern readers a snapshot of how consumption in literature – in a very broad sense, from clothing to decorative items – played a central role not only in mapping the transition from a pre-capitalist to a capitalist order, but also in exposing the key ideological and aesthetic tensions of the time (such as the rift between Unitarian and Federalist camps as well as gender and class tensions that continued in post-colonial Argentina). Keeping this in mind, this study considers how José Mármol’s treatment of luxury items in Amalia changed from the 1851 version (written before the fall of the Rosas dictatorship) to the 1855 one (written afterwards, in a much more conciliatory tone). While only 4 years had passed between these two editions, the changes in the descriptions of consumptive patterns point to the fact that consumption was not merely a colourful background in which to situate the novel’s political goals. Rather, consumption was political and, for Mármol, it was part and parcel of constructing a modern, liberal, romantic subject.

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José Mármol 的 Amalia (1851, 1855)：消费政治和自由主义的局限

《阿玛利亚》因其作为政治和/或历史浪漫小说的价值而受到赞誉，它也是该时期第一部也是最详细的小说之一，它为现代读者提供了文学消费的快照——在非常广泛的意义上，从服装到装饰项目——不仅在映射从前资本主义到资本主义秩序的过渡方面发挥了核心作用，而且在暴露当时的主要意识形态和审美张力（例如一神论和联邦主义阵营之间的裂痕以及性别和在后殖民时代的阿根廷继续存在阶级紧张局势）。牢记这一点，本研究考虑了何塞·马尔莫尔 (José Mármol) 在阿玛利亚 (Amalia) 对奢侈品的处理方式如何从 1851 年的版本（在罗萨斯独裁统治垮台之前编写）到 1855 年的版本（以更加和解的语气编写）。虽然这两个版本之间只有四年的时间，但对消费模式描述的变化表明，消费不仅仅是定位小说政治目标的多彩背景。相反，消费是政治性的，对于马尔莫尔来说，它是构建现代、自由、浪漫主题的重要组成部分。