El Ateneo de Madrid

La historia comparada de los procesos de construcción nacional británico, francés, español y portugués durante la era de las revoluciones construida a partir de un corpus de relatos de vida, constituye una óptica novedosa. Aunque las fuentes autobiográficas utilizan la palabra «nación» y sus términos asociados con diferentes sentidos, se pueden inferir una serie de patrones comunes de significado en los lenguajes nacionales empleados antes, durante y después de la revolución liberal. Asimismo, se aborda la relación entre la diversidad cultural territorializada y los conflictos...

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...

La imagen exterior de España cristalizó hace tiempo, conformando un conjunto de rasgos que, en puridad, se reducen a unos pocos estereotipos en los cuales la mayor parte de los españoles no nos reconocemos, aunque, paradójicamente, hayamos terminado por aceptarlos en el plano colectivo; este libro estudia cómo los viajeros europeos del XIX crearon esta imagen falsificada de España y los españoles.

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