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Book SynopsisIn Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary, the authors assess British Romanticism’s creative and polemical engagements with the Peninsular War, the bid of Spanish American colonies to establish independence with British support, and the impact of travel narratives about Spain and the Americas. The essays analyze questions of language and translation in Anglo-Hispanic literary genealogies, the representation of war and nationalism in poetry, drama, and prose, and the confluence of empire, gender, and authorship in travel narratives. Scholars and students of Romanticism will find in-depth explorations of the relationship between Britain, Spain, and Latin America during the Napoleonic era and its afterlife in cultural memory.
Table of ContentsJoselyn M. Almeida: Introduction: Of Windmills and New Worlds Theaters of Liberation Diego Saglia: Iberian Translations: Writing Spain into British Culture, 1780–1830 Joselyn M. Almeida: ‘Esa gran nación, repartida en ambos mundos’: Transnational Authorship in London and Nation Building in Latin America Tim Fulford: ‘El Diablo’ and ‘El Ángel del Cielo!’: Thomas and Kitty Cochrane and the Romanticisation of Revolution in South America Alicia Laspra Rodríguez: Fictionalizing History: British War Literature and the Asturian Uprising of 1808 Susan Valladares: ‘He that can bring the dead to life again’: Resurrecting the Spanish Setting in Coleridge’s Osorio (1797) and Remorse (1813) Trades and Exchanges Nanora Sweet: The Forest Sanctuary: The Anglo-Hispanic Uncanny in Felicia Hemans and José María Blanco White Rebecca Cole Heinowitz: The Spanish American Bubble and Britain’s Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822–1826 Maria Eugenia Perojo Arronte: Antonio Alcalá Galiano, Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Exchange, and the Idea of a Spanish ‘National’ Literature Jeffrey Cass: Fighting Over the Woman’s Body: Representations of Spain and the Staging of Gender Cristina Flores: ‘Imported seeds’: The Role of William Wordsworth in Miguel de Unamuno’s Poetic Renewal Vistas and Extensions Jeffrey Scraba: ‘Dear Old Romantic Spain’: Washington Irving Imagines Andalucía M. Soledad Caballero and Jennifer Hayward: ‘An occasional trait of Scotch shrewdness’: Narrating Nationalism in Frances Calderón de la Barca’s Life in Mexico Jessica Damián: ‘These Civil Wars of Nature’: Annotating South America’s Natural and Political History in Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in Chile (1824) Fernando González Moreno and Beatriz González Moreno: (Re) Discovering Spain: English Travellers and the Belated Picturesque Tour Notes on Contributors Index
