Imperial Emotions Cultural Responses To Myths Of Empire In Findesicle Spain
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781846319761
Description: This work reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. Its main claim is that the demise of the Spanish empire in 1898 spurred a number of contradictory emotional responses, ranging from mourning and melancholia to indignation, pride, and shame. It shows how intellectuals sought to reimagine a post-Empire Spain by drawing on myth and employing a predominantly emotional register.