Title Imperial emotions : cultural responses to myths of empire in fin-de-siècle Spain / Javier Krauel

Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; [10] Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 10. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-199) and index Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode English Print version record Subject Spanish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Collective memory -- Spain European history. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Collective memory Spanish literature Generation von 98 Vergangenheitsbewältigung SUBJECT Spain -- History -- 1868-1931. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126096 Subject Spain Spanien Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781781380963 1781380961 9781781385623 1781385629 9781846319761 1846319765

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