Publication: Romantic strife: the First Carlist War (1833–1840) in British fiction.
Authors
Medina Calzada, Sara
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Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.515151
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Abstract
British volunteers fought on both sides of the First Carlist War (1833–1840), the dynastic struggle between the
liberal factions that championed Isabella II and the reactionary forces that supported Don Carlos’s claim to the
Spanish throne. Despite British intervention, the conflict did not arouse as much interest in Britain as the
Peninsular War (1808–1814), but it served as the setting for several English literary works that reconstructed it
from different perspectives. These fictional texts include George Ryder’s Los Arcos (1845), Frederick
Hardman’s The Student of Salamanca (1845–1846), and Edward Augustus Milman’s The Wayside Cross; or,
the Raid of Gomez (1847). This paper analyses these texts focusing on their representations of Spain and the
First Carlist War and shows that they mostly ignore British intervention in the conflict and perpetuate the
romantic image of Spain that had emerged in Britain during the Peninsular War.
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Citation
International Journal of English Studies, Vol.22 (2), 2022
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