Imperial Emotions : Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-De-Siècle Spain.
A ground-breaking work that considers myths of the Spanish empire from the perspective of cultural responses to its demise.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures Series
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Table of 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, Modernity
- The 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.