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Author : Diego Saglia
Release : 1996
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Book Synopsis Images of Spain in British Romanticism by : Diego Saglia
Download or read book Images of Spain in British Romanticism written by Diego Saglia. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diego Saglia
Release : 2017-12-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Spain in British Romanticism by : Diego Saglia
Download or read book Spain in British Romanticism written by Diego Saglia. This book was released on 2017-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of Spain by nineteenth-century poets such as Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, S.T. Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Felicia Hemans in contrast to the Enlightenment-era view of Spain as a backwards nation in decline. Topics discussed include the vision of Spain in Gothic fiction, Spanish experiences of exile as exemplified by the conflict between Valentin de Llanos and Joseph Blanco White, and British women writers' approach to peninsular fiction. Spain in British Romanticism: 1800-1840 is essential reading for scholars and enthusiasts of Romantic literature and Spanish history.
Author : Diego Saglia
Release : 2021-12-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Poetic Castles in Spain by : Diego Saglia
Download or read book Poetic Castles in Spain written by Diego Saglia. This book was released on 2021-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British culture of the Romantic period is distinguished by a protracted and varied interest in things Spanish. The climax in the publication of fictional, and especially poetical, narratives on Spain corresponds with the intense phase of Anglo-Iberian exchanges delimited by the Peninsular War (1808-14), on the one hand, and the Spanish experiment of a constitutional monarchy that lasted from 1820 until 1823, on the other. Although current scholarship has uncovered and reconstructed several foreign maps of British Romanticism - from the Orient to the South Seas - exotic European geographies have not received much attention. Spain, in particular, is one of the most neglected of these 'imaginary' Romantic geographies, even if between the 1800s and the 1820s, and beyond, it was a site of wars and invasions, the object of foreign economic interests relating to its American colonies, and a geopolitical area crucial to the European balance designed by the post-Waterloo Vienna settlement. This study considers the various ways in which Spain figured in Romantic narrative verse, recovering the discursive materials employed in fictional representation, and assessing the relevance of this activity in the context of the dominant themes and preoccupations in contemporary British culture. The texts examined here include medievalizing and chivalric fictions, Orientalist adventures set in Islamic Granada, and modern-day tales of the anti-Napoleonic campaign in the Peninsula. Recovering some of the outstanding works and issues elaborated by British Romanticism through the cultural geography of Spain, this study shows that the Iberian country was an inexhaustible source of imaginative materials for British culture at a time when its imperial boundaries were expanding and its geopolitical influence was increasing in Europe and overseas.
Author : Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
Release : 2010-02-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826 by : Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
Download or read book Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826 written by Rebecca Cole Heinowitz. This book was released on 2010-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Spanish America's impact on the British Romantic literary and political imagination.
Author : Jonathan Gonzalez
Release : 2021-07-14
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal by : Jonathan Gonzalez
Download or read book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal written by Jonathan Gonzalez. This book was released on 2021-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1797 Robert Southey published a richly detailed account of his journey in Spain and Portugal between December 1795 and May 1796, from his arrival in Coruna in the northwest of the Spanish coast to the heart of Castile and into Madrid, before making his way to Lisbon. Structured as a series of letters written as he travelled across the Iberian Peninsula, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal engages with the tradition of English travelogues, while borrowing traits from other genres such as the journal, translation, literary criticism, history, and the picturesque guidebook. On his way, Southey comments on every aspect of Spanish and Portuguese society, from local food and wine, bizarre customs, literature and theatregoing, to Iberian politics and religion. In his letters Southey, who would grow to become one of the leading Hispanists in late Georgian England, contrasts the political, religious, cultural and social systems of Britain and two of the oldest nations in the European continent in a way that raises important questions about cultural contact and transmission during the Romantic period. This edition critically reassesses Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal by looking at Southey’s deeply ambiguous cultural cosmopolitanism and his life-long investment in all things Spanish and Portuguese.
