Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain [#998969]

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English | August 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1501374923, 1501374915, 9781501374937 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.7 MB
Studies that connect the Spanish 17th and 20th centuries usually do so through a conservative lens, assuming that the blunt imperialism of the early modern age, endlessly glorified by Franco's dictatorship, was a constant in the Spanish imaginary. This book, by contrast, recuperates the thriving, humanistic vision of the Golden Age celebrated by Spanish progressive thinkers, writers, and artists in the decades prior to 1939 and the Francoist Regime. The hybrid, modern stance of the country in the 1920s and early 1930s would uniquely incorporate the literary and political legacies of the Spanish Renaissance into the ambitious design of a forward, democratic future.