Ruin and Restitution

by Silver, Philip W.

• ISBN13: 9780826512895
• ISBN10: 0826512895
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Summary

In this highly suggestive work, Philip Silver confronts and corrects the entire critical tradition on Spanish romanticism and suggests a new "restitutional" theory of that period in Spanish cultural and political history.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Introduction: Romanticism and Postromantic Poetry	xi
I Romanticism and the Invention of Modern Spain	3	(39)
Historical Romanticism as Moderate Liberal Ideology	4	(9)
"Moderado" Aesthetics and Politics: Lista and Espronceda	13	(11)
National-Romanticism and Bourgeois Historiography	24	(7)
The Neoromantic Nationalism of 1898	31	(7)
The Return of the Politically Repressed	38	(4)
II Romanticism in Ruins	42	(31)
Originary "Messianic" Romanticism	43	(5)
The Ruins of Spanish Romanticism	48	(6)
European Romanticism in Ruins	54	(12)
A Restitutional Theory of Spanish Romanticism	66	(7)
III Becquer Sublime: The Prose and Poetry	73	(26)
Becquer's National-Romantic Sublime	73	(7)
Becquer's Preromantic Sublime	80	(10)
Desdemona's Handkerchief	90	(9)
IV Luis Cernuda and the Restitution of Romanticism	99	(24)
From Pastoral to Abramsian Paradigm	100	(14)
Cernuda's Postromantic Sublime	114	(9)
V On "Resolute Repetition": A Methodological Conclusion	123	(12)
Notes	135	(32)
Selected Bibliography	167	(4)
Index	171