Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured world

Andrew Ginger is Chair of Spanish and Head of School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music at the University of Birmingham

Geraldine Lawless is Lecturer in Spanish at Queens University, Belfast

Introduction
1. How (not) to make a durable state - Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
2. How to be universal - Andrew Ginger
3. How to tell time - Geraldine Lawless
4. How to be religious under liberalism - Gregorio Alonso
5. How to prescribe a cure for the ills of art - Óscar Vázquez
6. How to know about right and wrong - Alison Sinclair
7. How to be a man - Collin McKinney
8. How to be a writer for the press - and how to write about it - Rhian Davies
9. How to be a cultural entrepreneur - Henriette Partzsch
10. How to be a man of letters - Raquel Sánchez
11. How to be an intellectual - Luis G. Martínez del Campo
12. How to live a colonial soldier's life - Catherine Davies
Index