Andrew R. Reynolds is assistant professor of Spanish at West Texas A&M University.

Reynolds employs a material culture studies approach by reading the crónica through journalistic practices, while also drawing from sociological and poststructuralist theorists such as Deleuze and Bourdieu. His take on the crónica modernista is a valuable contribution to crónica studies that revises some of the current analytical commonplaces on the topic....[T]his is an ambitious book that steers clear from easy aners in favor of nuance, tension and even paradox. Its ambitious argument in favor of reintegrating the cronica into the world of turn-of-the-century journalism is provocative yet persuasive...[T]his is a book that puts forward excellent claims about the history of journalism and the always slippery definition of both the crónica and the modernista movement.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 – Journalism as Literary Practice During Modernismo2 – “Possession of the Infinite”: Temporality and Difference in Modernismo3 – “Circulation and Vitality”: Editorial Influence,Visual Culture and the Crónica Modernista4 – “The House of Ideas”: The Crónica Modernista, Material Culture of the Book and Literary HistoryWorks CitedAbout the Author

Andrew R. Reynolds is assistant professor of Spanish at West Texas A&M University.

Reynolds employs a material culture studies approach by reading the crónica through journalistic practices, while also drawing from sociological and poststructuralist theorists such as Deleuze and Bourdieu. His take on the crónica modernista is a valuable contribution to crónica studies that revises some of the current analytical commonplaces on the topic....[T]his is an ambitious book that steers clear from easy aners in favor of nuance, tension and even paradox. Its ambitious argument in favor of reintegrating the cronica into the world of turn-of-the-century journalism is provocative yet persuasive...[T]his is a book that puts forward excellent claims about the history of journalism and the always slippery definition of both the crónica and the modernista movement.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 – Journalism as Literary Practice During Modernismo2 – “Possession of the Infinite”: Temporality and Difference in Modernismo3 – “Circulation and Vitality”: Editorial Influence,Visual Culture and the Crónica Modernista4 – “The House of Ideas”: The Crónica Modernista, Material Culture of the Book and Literary HistoryWorks CitedAbout the Author

Andrew R. Reynolds is assistant professor of Spanish at West Texas A&M University.

Reynolds employs a material culture studies approach by reading the crónica through journalistic practices, while also drawing from sociological and poststructuralist theorists such as Deleuze and Bourdieu. His take on the crónica modernista is a valuable contribution to crónica studies that revises some of the current analytical commonplaces on the topic....[T]his is an ambitious book that steers clear from easy aners in favor of nuance, tension and even paradox. Its ambitious argument in favor of reintegrating the cronica into the world of turn-of-the-century journalism is provocative yet persuasive...[T]his is a book that puts forward excellent claims about the history of journalism and the always slippery definition of both the crónica and the modernista movement.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 – Journalism as Literary Practice During Modernismo2 – “Possession of the Infinite”: Temporality and Difference in Modernismo3 – “Circulation and Vitality”: Editorial Influence,Visual Culture and the Crónica Modernista4 – “The House of Ideas”: The Crónica Modernista, Material Culture of the Book and Literary HistoryWorks CitedAbout the Author