Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)

Spain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions -- either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the early modern period or as an imaginary geography of a 'Romantic' Spain in later centuries. Ho...

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Other Authors: Rodríguez Pérez, Yolanda (Editor)
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Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2020
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