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The Modern Usurer Consecrates the City: Circulation and Displacements in the Torquemada Series

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Sara Muñoz-Muriana examines the relationship between the sacred and the city in the Spanish late nineteenth century through the urban presence of Francisco Torquemada, in the Galdosian series in which he is nominally the protagonist. Midway between the old metaphysics of usury and the world of modern finance, Torquemada is a hybrid subject in a state of permanent dislocation. Looking at the character’s relationship with streets, both as sources of income by which Torquemada turns the urban space and his circulation in it into economic wealth, and as sacred spaces in which to reconnect with God through acts of charity, this chapter also analyzes the fundamental importance of itinerancy to defy old forms of authority and make the whole city a sacred site.

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  1. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

    Sara Muñoz-Muriana

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  1. Manhattan College , Riverdale, New York, USA

    Antonio Cordoba

  2. Catholic University of America, USA , Washington, DC, District of Columbia, USA

    Daniel García-Donoso

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Muñoz-Muriana, S. (2016). The Modern Usurer Consecrates the City: Circulation and Displacements in the Torquemada Series. In: Cordoba, A., García-Donoso, D. (eds) The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain. Hispanic Urban Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60020-2_3

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