Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War : Hispanophilia, commitment, and discipline / Sebastiaan Faber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faber, Sebastiaan, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Foreign public opinion, American.

Spain.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Foreign public opinion, British.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Historiography.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

What do you do when a beloved foreign country plunges into civil war? And how do you square your political views on that war with the demands of scholarly objectivity? In this book, Sebastiaan Faber assesses the long-term impact of the Spanish Civil War on Hispanic Studies as an academic field in the United States and Great Britain. Combining institutional history with biography, the book gives a compelling account of the dilemmas that the war posed for four Hispanists who turned their love of Spain into their life's work.

Contents:

Labor of love : Hispanism as Hispanophilia

Politics and professionalism : don't mention the war

U.S. Hispanism and the quest for prestige : genealogy of a discipline

Herbert R. Southworth : the rebirth of the "amateur" Hispanist

Paul Patrick Rogers : frustrations of a radical Hispanist

"An honest seeker after truth" : E. Allison Peers and the illusion of impartiality

"Spain is my country, revolution or no revolution" : love and politics in Gerald Brenan

British Hispanists and the curse of conservatism

Conclusion : legitimacy and Spanish Civil War discourse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-270) and index.

ISBN:

0230600794

9780230600799

OCLC:

183926445

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