The magic lantern : having a ball and Christmas eve / a novel and novella by Jose Tomas de Cuellar ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Carson ; edited and with an introduction by Margo Glantz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuellar, Jose Tomas de, author.

Contributor:

Carson, Margaret, translator.

Glantz, Margo, editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Library of Latin America.

Library of Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican fiction--19th century--Translations into English.

Mexican fiction.

Cuéllar, José Tomás de, 1830-1894--Translations into English.

Cuéllar, José Tomás de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jose Tomas de Cuellar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humor and gift for caricature. Having a Ball and Christmas Eve are two novellas written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-nineteenth century by the periodical press in which these sketches of contemporary manners were first published. The stories are a sensitive reflection of the effects of modernization brought by an authoritarian regime dedicated to order and progress.Christmas Eve describes a volatile middle class in which people pursue pleasure and entertainment without regard to morality.

Contents:

Cover; About Editor; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Introduction; The Magic Lantern; Prologue; Having A Ball; I Preparations for the Ball; II How Couples Were Recruited and Guests Invited; III About the Machuca Sisters and Others Like Them; IV In Which, Among Other Things, the Girls Who Frequent the Pane Baths Prepare Themselves for the Colonel's Ball; V Concerning What Happened to the Virtue of a Lady Invited to Saldaña's Ball; VI How the Appearances Maintained by These Upstarts Tend to Compromise Any Serious Result; VII The Ball Begins

VIII How the Heat from Candles, Combined with a Santa Barbara Cognac and Other Evils, Can Create Pandemonium at a BallIX Conclusion; Christmas Eve; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 12, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-993898-9

0-19-535410-9

1-4294-0373-X

OCLC:

784886712