Iberianism and Crisis: Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

258 Pages·2018·1.013 MB·English

by  Robert Patrick Newcomb

IBERIANISM AND CRISIS
Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the
Twentieth Century
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ROBERT PATRICK NEWCOMB
Iberianism and Crisis
Spain and Portugal at the Turn
of the Twentieth Century

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
© University of Toronto Press 2018
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Newcomb, Robert Patrick, author
Iberianism and crisis : Spain and Portugal at the turn of the twentieth
century / Robert Patrick Newcomb.
(Toronto Iberic ; 33)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4875-0296-6 (cloth)
1. Comparative literature – Spanish and Portuguese. 2. Comparative
literature – Portuguese and Spanish. 3. Spain – Relations – Portugal –
History – 20th century. 4. Portugal – Relations – Spain – History –
20th century. 5. Spain – Intellectual life – 20th century. 6. Portugal –
Intellectual life – 20th century. I. Title. II. Series: Toronto Iberic ; 33
PQ9019.N49 2018 460 C2017-906105-4
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This book received support from the Davis Division of the Academic

Senate of the University of California.

University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario

Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

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Funded by the Financé par le
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This book is dedicated to my wife, Kelley Weiss, and our sons,
Simon Patrick and Ethan Francis Newcomb.
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Iberianism in a Time of Crisis 1
2 Antero de Quental, Iberista: A Portuguese Iberianist, the
Geração de 70, and the Sexenio Democrático in Spain 38
3 “A Ribbon of Silver”: Representations of the
Portuguese–Galician Border at the Fin de Siècle 63
4 Miguel de Unamuno: A Peninsula of Flesh and Bone 101
5 Joan Maragall: Iberian Hymns from Catalonia 129
6 The Iberianist Legacy: Salvador de Madariaga
Reads Oliveira Martins 162
Conclusion: Iberianism’s Lessons 195
Notes 209

Works Cited 225

Index 239
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank: my colleagues in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at the University of California, Davis, and in the University of
California Comparative Iberian Studies Working Group; the University
of Toronto Press, particularly Siobhan McMenemy and Mark Thomp-
son, for support of this project; Onésimo T. Almeida; S ilvia Bermúdez;
Leopoldo M. Bernucci; Sérgio Campos Matos; Thomas Harrington,
Francisca González-Arias, Carmen Pereira-Muro, and Sharon Roseman,
for helping me to formulate the ideas presented in chapter 3; and my
external reviewers, for substantive and helpful feedback.
An earlier, abbreviated version of chapter 2 was published as “Antero
de Quental, Iberista: Iberianism as Organizing Principle and Evolv-
ing Intellectual Commitment,” (Iberoamericana, Nueva época, 8, no. 1
[September 2008]: 45–60). Chapter 4 builds from the articles “Portugal
na visão unamuniana da Ibéria como unidade dialética” (Estudos Avan-
çados, 24 [69] [2010]: 61–78), “Iberian Anguish: Unamuno’s Influence
on Miguel Torga” (Luso-Brazilian Review 49, no. 2 [2012]: 188–206), and
“A Poetry of Flesh and Bone: Miguel de Unamuno and Miguel Torga”
(Portuguese Studies 30, no. 1 (2014): 21–36), though its focus and argu-
ment are broader. All translations from the Portuguese, Spanish, Cata-

lan, and Galician are mine except where otherwise noted. I take full
responsibility for errors of fact, translation, or transcription.
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