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dc.contributor.editorRodríguez Pérez, Yolanda
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-27 15:48:21
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T09:14:56Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T09:14:56Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier1006718
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23431
dc.description.abstractSpain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions -- either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the early modern period or as an imaginary geography of a ‘Romantic’ Spain in later centuries. However, the image of Spain, its culture and its inhabitants did not evolve inexorably from negative to positive. From the early modern period onwards, it responded to an ambiguous matrix of conflicting Hispanophobic and Hispanophilic representations. Just as in the nineteenth century latent negative stereotypes continued to resurface, even in the Romantic heyday, in the early modern period appreciation for Spain was equally undeniable. When Spain was a political and military superpower, it also enjoyed cultural hegemony with a literary Golden Age producing internationally hailed masterpieces. Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) explores the protracted interest in Spain and its culture, and it exposes the co-existent ambiguity between scorn and fascination that characterizes Western historical perceptions, in particular in Britain and the Low Countries, two geographical spaces with a shared sense of historical connectedness and an overlapping, sometimes complicated, history with Spain.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHeritage and Memory Studies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DSE Spainen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present dayen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterary
dc.subject.otherhispanophobia
dc.subject.otherSpain
dc.subject.otherBritain
dc.subject.otherLow countries
dc.titleLiterary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_1006718
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a
oapen.relation.isFundedByda087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025
oapen.collectionDutch Research Council (NWO)
oapen.imprintPallas Publications
oapen.pages363
oapen.place.publicationAmsterdam


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