Poetic Castles in Spain : : British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
• VerfasserIn: Saglia, Diego,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.; ©2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 pages)

Saglia, a scholar of some sort whose academic affiliations are not noted, charts the various ways in which, between the 1810s and 1820s, Spain figured in British literary culture. Mainly concerned with narrative versions of Spain, specifically metrical tales and verse romances, he traces the contours of the Spanish "imaginary" in British Romanticism, offering a cultural geography of Romantic Spain as a space of war involving not only France and Britain or the Spanish and Moorish armies, but ideological conflicts between public and private; republicanism, nationalism, and imperialism; and competing models of masculinity and femininity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Table of Contents

Preface. INTRODUCTION. 'Not Less Improbable than the Wildest Fictions of Romance': Narratives of Spain from the Peninsular War to the 1820s.War, Revolution and the Debate on SpainHolland House and the Cultural Politics of IberiaMapping Difference: Romantic Descriptions of SpainFictions of Spain before 1808Chivalry, Romance and Spanish Cultural HistoryReading the Spanish ImaginaryCHAPTER ONE Tales of War and National Narratives: The Peninsular War and Myths of the Nation.Multiplying the Romantic NationSpain as Composite National Text in Felicia Hemans's The Domestic AffectionsGothic Epos: British Romanticism and the Roderick Theme.Southey's Roderick: Re-Constructing the Spanish Nation.Dismantling the Nation-Family: Landor's Count JulianThe Nation as Progress Text in Scott's The Vision of Don RoderickHemans's England and Spain and the Ambiguous Politics of the Progress PoemPatriotic Knights and Matadors in Byron's Childe Harold I.CHAPTER TWO Patriots, Heroines and Dons: Models of Subjectivity in the Spanish Text.Place and the Romantic SubjectThe Revolutionary Leader and Nationalist Dilemmas in Landor's Count JulianThe Spanish Patriot as National CharacterRe-Figuring Spanish Freedom Fighters in the Post-Napoleonic PeriodGothic Persecution in the Peninsular War: Mary Leman Grimstone's ZaydaAmazons, Patriotic Heroines and the Maid of SaragossaThe Spanish Princess as Domestic Heroine: Constance de Castile and Blanch of AledoRomance and the Other Identity: Heroic Britons and Spanish LadiesSpain in ottava rima: Byron's Don Juan and Barry Cornwall's Diego de Montilla.