Inventing the modern region
Inventing the modern region

Author: Talitha Ilacqua

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 152616924X

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This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, this stereotypical identity was invented as part of France’s process of nation-building. The abolition of privileges in 1789 prompted a new interest in local culture as the defining feature of provincial France, shaping the transition from the pre-‘modern’ province to the ‘modern’ region. The relationship between the region and the nation, however, was difficult. Regional culture favoured the integration of the French Basque provinces into the French nation-state but also challenged the authority of the central state. As a result, Basque region-building reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the unitary model of French nationhood, in the nineteenth century as well as today.

Francisco Navarro Villoslada, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)
Francisco Navarro Villoslada, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Beatrice Quijada Cornish

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9780666049445

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Excerpt from Francisco Navarro Villoslada, Vol. 7 Francisco Navarro Villoslada, the great historical novelist of the romantic school,8 was born in Viana,9 Navarre,10 on the ninth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula

Author: César Domínguez

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 781

ISBN-13: 9027266913

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Volume 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula brings to an end this collective work that aims at surveying the network of interliterary relations in the Iberian Peninsula. No attempt at such a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula has been made until now. In this volume, the focus is placed on images (Section 1), genres (Section 2), forms of mediation (Section 3), and cultural studies and literary repertoires (Section 4). To these four sections an epilogue is added, in which specialists in literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in the (sub)disciplines of comparative history and comparative literary history, search for links between Volumes 1 and 2 from the point of view of general contributions to the field of Iberian comparative studies, and assess the entire project that now reaches completion with contributions from almost one hundred scholars.