TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernard Beatty
AU  - Alicia Laspra Rodríguez
PY  - 2019
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781787077041
TI  - Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution
T2  - British Views on Spain, 1814–1823
DO  - 10.3726/b11396
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055813
N2  - When the Peninsular War ended in 1814, the prolonged struggle had all but exhausted both British government finances and the British public’s enthusiasm for war. The authoritarian rule of Ferdinand VII aroused long-standing British suspicions of Spanish ways, which emerged in British literary works that depicted a retrograde, fanatical Spain. The tumultuous years following Ferdinand’s reign also led to divisions among the European powers, some favouring the restoration of Ferdinand, with the British government and liberal forces vehemently opposed.  This diverse volume focuses on British reactions to, and representations of, Spanish affairs during this lively period (1814–1823). It demonstrates both Spain’s visibility in Regency Britain and the consequent inspiration and dialectical activity of British politicians, artists and intellectuals. It does so through a combination of literary, social, historical and cultural perspectives that bring both fresh light to this formative period of nineteenth-century British attitudes to Spain and a wealth of new scholarly material.
KW  - The end of the Napoleonic era and the Concert of Europe, revolutions in Southern Europe, Spanish cultural and literary reception, Regency Britain
LA  - English
ER  -