Dear network members,
We hope this finds you very well.
Following the successful launch of the Anglo-Hispanic Horizons network at the ‘1814’ conference in London this May, we invite you to join us for the BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) International Conference (at Cardiff, Wales), 16-19 July 2015. The theme is ‘Romantic Imprints’ (please see CFP attached) and we are keen to propose a panel called 'Britain and Spain: Intertextual Imprints, 1808-1823’:
The aim of this panel is to re-examine the impact of the Peninsular War (1808-14) on British culture and politics in the later Romantic period. Napoleon’s invasion of Spain in 1808 precipitated three decades of unprecedented change in which Spain broke with its conservative past and experimented with both imposed and home-grown varieties of political, social and cultural liberty. The ‘guerrilla’ resistance to Napoleon and the liberal opposition to Bourbon absolutism inspired observers throughout Britain and the Spanish colonies; indeed, it was seen as ironic that Spanish American liberation movements began at the same time as Spain suffered the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814, while the liberal revolution of 1820-23 was terminated by a second French invasion. The sum total of these events was a significant discursive response that helped locate Spanish politics and culture within British literature. This panel aims to identify how these intriguing developments helped shape Romantic studies, uncovering a bi-cultural ‘imprint’ that provides new contexts for the familiar stereotypes of ‘Gothic’ Spain.
Please send your abstracts to [log in to unmask] before 1 October 2014. We look forward to continuing our conversation with you in this forum.
un abrazo,
Ian, Diego, Alicia, Agustin, Graciela and Susan
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