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Book SynopsisIberianism refers to a minority intellectual current which emerged in Spain and Portugal during the mid-nineteenth century and developed in step with the Iberian Peninsula’s successive crises. Iberianism sought to upend the peninsula’s political and intellectual status quo by advocating closer ties between the two peninsular kingdoms, and more equitable relations between the Spanish state’s constituent regions, including Castile, Catalonia, Basque Country, and Galicia.
Robert Patrick Newcomb’s Iberianism and Crisis examines how prominent peninsular essay writers and public intellectuals, active around the turn of the twentieth century, looked to Iberianism to address a succession of political, economic, and social crises that shook the Spanish and Portuguese states to their foundations. Bringing into dialogue prominent fin-de-siècle peninsular literary intellectuals, including Joan Maragall, Oliveira Martins, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Ante
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"Iberianism and Crisis does something unique for a scholarly study: It excavates an anachronism in a way that offers perspective on the present, brilliantly showing at every step the enormous value of crossing disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of broader humanistic and intercultural understanding." -- Brian Cope, The College of Wooster * Hispania *
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Iberianism in a Time of Crisis Discourses of Crisis in Fin-de-Siècle Spain and Portugal Iberianism as a Response to Peninsular Crisis Iberianism as Critical History Chapter 2 Antero de Quental, Iberista: A Portuguese Iberianist, the Geração de 70, and the Sexenio Democrático in Spain Antero de Quental, Iberian Federalist: Portugal Perante a Revolução de Espanha Causas da Decadência dos Povos Peninsulares as an Iberianist Text The Afterlife of Iberianism in Antero de Quental Chapter 3 "A Ribbon of Silver": Representations of the Portuguese-Galician Border at the Fin de Siècle Oliveira Martins: Dismembering Galicia Emilia Pardo Bazán: Invincible Affinity Miguel de Unamuno: Galician Nature and the Iberian Dialectic Chapter 4 Miguel de Unamuno: A Peninsula of Flesh and Bone Miguel de Unamuno, Lusófilo and Iberianist Iberia as a Dialectical Unity Portugal and Spain, Flesh and Bone Dialectical Unity, Corporeal Ties Chapter 5 Joan Maragall: Iberian Hymns from Catalonia The Prismatic Man: Maragall as Catalan, Spaniard, and Iberian Maragall’s Fragmentary Iberianism Maragall and Unamuno in Dialogue: Europeanization and "Another Spain" Chapter 6 The Iberianist Legacy: Salvador de Madariaga reads Oliveira Martins Salvador de Madariaga: Iberian Federalist and Liberal Heretic Madariaga and the Publication of A History of Iberian Civilization Iberian Unity and Variety: Madariaga and Oliveira Martins Compared Conclusion Iberianism’s Lessons From Hispanism to Iberian Studies Iberian Studies and the Shadow of Iberianism Works Cited
