Imperial emotions : cultural responses to myths of empire in fin-de-siècle Spain / Javier Krauel.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 10.Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781781380963
- 1781380961
- 9781781385623
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- Spanish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Collective memory -- Spain
- Spain -- History -- 1868-1931
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese
- European history
- Collective memory
- Spanish literature
- Spain
- Generation von 98
- Vergangenheitsbewältigung
- Spanien
- Regions & Countries - Europe
- History & Archaeology
- Spain & Portugal
- 1868-1999
- 860.9/006 23
- PQ6072
This work reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. Its main claim is that the demise of the Spanish empire in 1898 spurred a number of contradictory emotional responses, ranging from mourning and melancholia to indignation, pride, and shame. It shows how intellectuals sought to reimagine a post-Empire Spain by drawing on myth and employing a predominantly emotional register.
Cover ; Half-title ; Title page ; Coyright page ; Contents ; Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Redressing the Silencing of Empire; Imperialism and Nationalism; The Spanish Empire's Embattled Legacies; Imperial Legacies and National Reform; Imperial Emotions and the Essay on National Character; Chapter 1 ; Columbus in 1892; Nationalist Uses of the Imperial Past; Freethinkers and Empire; The Failure of the Federalist Critique; Chapter 2 ; Addressing the Post-Imperial Condition; Empire and casticismo; Mourning Imperial Values; Chapter 3 ; Theorizing Imperial Ambivalence.
Independence, Expansion, ModernityThe Paradox of Empire and Melancholia; Chapter 4 ; Anger and Indignation ; Nietzsche's Critical History; The Conquest of the meseta as a Second (Imperial) Nature; Chapter 5 ; Catalanist Mood circa 1906; The Subdued Emotions of Cognition and Controversy; Imperialism and the Creation of National Pride; Witnessing the Spanish Empire's Shame; Conclusion ; The Vanishing of Ambivalence; The Moral Implications of Imperial Emotions; Works Cited; Index.
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