Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)

Spain 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...

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description Spain 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-321632025-07-30T10:21:06Z Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) Rodríguez Pérez, Yolanda Literary hispanophobia Spain Britain Low countries thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DSE Spain thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DSE Spain thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day Spain 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. 2021-02-10T13:56:39Z 2021-02-10T13:56:39Z 2020-03-27 15:48:21 2020-04-01T09:14:56Z 2020 book 1006718 1006718 OCN: 1138874501 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23431 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32163 eng Heritage and Memory Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23431/1/9789048541935.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23431/1/9789048541935.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23431/1/9789048541935.pdf Amsterdam University Press Pallas Publications 10.26530/OAPEN_1006718 10.26530/OAPEN_1006718 de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Dutch Research Council (NWO) Pallas Publications 363 Amsterdam open access
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Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
title Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
title_full Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
title_fullStr Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
title_full_unstemmed Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
title_short Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
title_sort literary hispanophobia and hispanophilia in britain and the low countries 1550 1850
topic Literary
hispanophobia
Spain
Britain
Low countries
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hispanophobia
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Low countries
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