Antonio Alcalá Galiano, Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Exchange, and the Idea of a Spanish "National" Literature

  1. Perojo Arronte, María Eugenia
Llibre:
Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic imaginary
  1. Almeida, Joselyn M. (coord.)

Editorial: Rodopi

ISBN: 978-90-420-3032-9

Any de publicació: 2010

Pàgines: 213-232

Tipus: Capítol de llibre

Resum

This paper explores the role that Antonio Alcala Galiano (1789-1865), one of the leading intellectuals and active politicians of the first half of the nineteenth century, had in the reception of British Romanticism in Spain.(1) His residence in England as an exile during the time of the Absolutist Regime of Ferdinand VII gave way to a shift in his literary and political ideals. Galiano's view of British literature and politics was decisive for his conception of a Spanish national literature, alien to the cliches of contemporary movements, and, at the same time, intimately related to his political liberal program.