Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War
Subtitle: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780230600799
Subjects: Europe - Spain & Portugal; Modern - 20th Century; United States - 20th Century; History / Spain & Portugal; History; History - General History; Civil War, 1936-1939; Foreign public opinion, American; Foreign public opinion, British; Historiography; Spain; History: World
First sentence: This book is about the impact of a major political event on an academic field of study.
Description: What do you do when a beloved foreign country plunges into civil war? And how do you square your political views on that war with the demands of scholarly objectivity? In this book, Sebastiaan Faber assesses the long-term impact of the Spanish Civil War on Hispanic Studies as an academic field in the United States and Great Britain. Combining institutional history with biography, the book gives a compelling account of the dilemmas that the war posed for four Hispanists who turned their love of Spain into their life’s work.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Part I Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Labor of Love: Hispanism as Hispanophilia; title: Part II Watching Our Tongues, Pens, and Affiliations: American Hispanism and the Spanish Civil War; title: 3. Politics and Professionalism: Don’t Mention the War; title: 4. U.S. Hispanism and the Quest for Prestige: Genealogy of a Discipline; title: 5. Herbert R. Southworth: The Rebirth of the “Amateur” Hispanist; title: 6. Paul Patrick Rogers: Frustrations of a Radical Hispanist; title: Part III “A Balanced and Impartial View”: British Hispanism and the Spanish Civil War; title: 7. “An Honest Seeker after Truth”: E. Allison Peers and the Illusion of Impartiality; title: 8. “Spain is My Country, Revolution or No Revolution”: Love and Politics in Gerald Brenan; title: 9. British Hispanists and the Curse of Conservatism; title: 10. Conclusion: Legitimacy and Spanish Civil War Discourse; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index