Morbo, género y terror

This essay discusses the construction of a cultural vision of Russian nihilism in the Spanish liberal press following the assassination of Alexander II in 1881, identifying the codified metaphoric context of texts and suggesting their possible political and social applicability to the local panorama of the Restoration period. The article points out the ways in which reports of Russian revolutionary events masqueraded a discussion of national issues and contemporary debates concerning political and social modernization, gender, women ́s access to higher education, national identity, and Spain ́s place in the European context. The exploration highlights the malleable boundaries separating the press and the literary realm in the late nineteenth century, and provides a transnational panorama beyond theoretic postulates of how the depictions of foreign circumstances, issues, and another country ́s people and politics may have played a role in the distanced articulation of autochthonous cultural imaginaries

Art · Fin de siecle · Humanities · Modernization theory · National identity · Nihilism · Panorama · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Media, Journalism, and Communication History · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies

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