Víctor Balaguer, Historian and Politician, and the Invention of Catalan Nationalist Rhetoric: An Interpretative Essay

Authors

  • Enric Ucelay-Da Cal Universitat Pompeu Fabra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/cercles2016.19.1014

Keywords:

Victor Balaguer, Catalan historiography, Catalan Nationalism, Romanticism and Nationalism, Romanticism and History.

Abstract

Enric Ucelay-Da Cal presents Vìctor Balaguer as a key Romantic historian, who established the canon of Catalan National History. Given the obsessive historicism of Catalan nationalism, this implicitly makes him a major figure in its logical construction. Ucelay-Da Cal situates Balaguer in the stream of nineteenth-century historical culture in Europe and the Americas, and presents a broad-based interpretation of Balaguer’s role as a historian by comparison to general historiografic trends and to political developments.

Author Biography

Enric Ucelay-Da Cal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Published

2016-11-13

Issue

No. 19 (2016): Cercles. A Journal of Cultural History 19.

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