Nacionalizar la naturaleza. Ciencias naturales y discursos nacionalistas en la España del regeneracionismo
The intertwining of science and literature is a prominent feature of those nationalistic discourses, spanning the turn-of-the-century decades from approximately 1870 to 1930, that have become regarded as typical of Spanish regeneracionismo. Naturalists, such as geologist and mining engineer, Lucas M...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2011 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repository: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/20529 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20529 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Literatura Medio ambiente Literature Environmental science |
| Summary: | The intertwining of science and literature is a prominent feature of those nationalistic discourses, spanning the turn-of-the-century decades from approximately 1870 to 1930, that have become regarded as typical of Spanish regeneracionismo. Naturalists, such as geologist and mining engineer, Lucas Mallada, or geographer and geologist, Eduardo Hernández-Pacheco, tapped into the intellectual authority of science in order to provide new narratives of Spanish nature as the ultimate source of both national identity and national prosperity. First, if Spaniards were to have a realistic account of the opportunities and obstacles involved in their millenary relationship with a rich and diverse, but nonetheless rugged and harsh, natural environment, a full scientific survey of the Spanish territory was in order. Second, inspirations for a renewed and strengthened national identity could be derived from a re-examination of Spanish nature. In the midst of a particularly acute fin-de-siècle crisis, many intellectuals turned towards the natural landscape as a source of healing and regeneration, hoping to rejuvenate a deep, ages-old, organic relationship between the Spanish people and Iberian nature. |
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