The Spirit of the Age in Literature and Liberalism: Spain and its Empire after 1808

Citation

Ginger A (2010) The Spirit of the Age in Literature and Liberalism: Spain and its Empire after 1808. Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies, 11 (1), pp. 3-10. http://www.maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/hrj/; https://doi.org/10.1179/146827309X12561172237508

Abstract
This is the introductory essay of a special issue for the bicentenary of the Spanish uprising of 1808. The essay reconsiders the interpretation of nineteenth-century culture and historicism in the light of post-revisionist understandings of history and especially in relation to revaluations of the Romantic and Post-Romantic periods.

Keywords
Liberalism; Spain; Romanticism; Historicism; Revisionist History; Atlantic; Genealogy; Countcanonical; 1808; Revolution; Post-Romanticism; Spain History 19th century; Spain Intellectual life 19th century

Journal
Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies: Volume 11, Issue 1

• intro1808.pdf