Catalonia and Democracy: The Circle of Víctor Balaguer, 1857-1860
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https://doi.org/10.1344/cercles2016.19.1003Keywords:
Víctor Balaguer, Catalan literature, Jacint Verdaguer, Conrad Roure, Frederic Soler, Emili Guanyavents, culture of republicanismAbstract
Víctor Balaguer, in 1866, distinguished two schools in the Catalan literature of the time based on their respective use of the country’s history: one he depicted “as a holy relic for the blessed contemplation of its devotees”, while the other he portrayed as “a field of discussion”. Balaguer encapsulated this second school, forged in the years 1857-1860, as one in which Catalan literature began to treat the issue of relations between Catalonia and Spain as a major theme. It did so by means of a repertoire of historical examples that sought to show a Catalan history in defence of democracy, battling against absolutism and despotism.Downloads
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2016-11-13
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