Imperial Emotions : : Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-De-Siècle Spain.

• Superior document: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures Series ; v.10
• Author: Krauel, Javier.
• Place / Publishing House: Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2013.; {copy}2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)

A ground-breaking work that considers myths of the Spanish empire from the perspective of cultural responses to its demise.

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.