ABSTRACT

This article investigates how portrayals of the diligencia (stagecoach) in costumbrista texts, guidebooks and other writings from early nineteenth-century Spain helped characterize the country’s transition to modernity. Tracing the growing influence of the stagecoach network in the years before the railroad, the study examines how writers such as Mariano José de Larra and Ramón de Mesonero Romanos employ the diligencia both as a symbol of movement and a literary device well-suited to conveying the quickening pace of life that they observed. Precursor to the tranvía and train, the diligencia occasioned changes in how writers perceived and represented their era. Opening up new means of association, exchange and, ultimately, narration, the diligencia becomes an apt means to comment on the political, social and economic climate of the day.

摘要

本文研究了十九世纪初西班牙在costumbrista教科书，指南和其他著作中对diligencia（驿马车）的描绘如何描绘了该国向现代主义的转变。这项研究追踪了在铁路出现之前的几年中驿马车网络日益增长的影响力，研究了马里亚诺·何塞·德·拉拉（MarianoJoséde Larra）和拉蒙·德·梅索内罗·罗曼诺斯（Ramónde Mesonero Romanos）等作家如何利用diligencia既是运动的象征，又是一种文学工具，非常适合传达加快他们观察到的生活节奏。前体tranvía在训练中，这种困境导致作家对自己时代的看法和代表方式发生了变化。开辟新的结社，交流和最终的叙事方式，这种困境成为评论当今政治，社会和经济环境的一种合适手段。