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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Imperial Emotions: Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain 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, a contention that departs from current scholarly depictions of the fin-de-siècle crisis in Spain that largely leave the role of both emotions and imperial myths in that crisis unexplored. By focusing on the neglected emotional dimension of memory practices, Imperial Emotions opens up new ways of interpreting some of the most canonical essays in twentieth-century Iberian literature: Miguel de Unamuno's En torno al casticismo, Ángel Ganivet's Idearium español, Ramiro de Maeztu's Hacia otra España, and Enric Prat de la Riba's La nacionalitat catalana. It also examines the profound imp

Author

Javier Krauel

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846319761

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction