Abstract
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.
Highlights
Palabras claves: España, fin de siglo, nihilismo ruso, terrorismo, belleza, sexualidad y género, ideales burgueses, modernidad, prensa, imaginario nacional, transnacionalismo
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, womens access to higher education, national identity, and Spains place in the European context
Summary
Los debates intelectuales en torno a la modernización social y política en la España de fin de siglo: Rusia como metáfora. La discusión sobre las terroristas servía a la vez de plataforma para subrayar los peligros de una educación superior para la mujer más allá del apropiado a “su naturaleza”, uno de los caldeados debates de la primera década del período de la Restauración en vísperas del Primer Congreso Pedagógico de 1882. Su valor también ha sido señalado como aspecto cultural de la España moderna, en especial en relación con la prensa del corazón y la cultura homosexual contemporánea: IMBERT, Gérard: Los escenarios de la violencia: conductas anómicas y orden social en la España actual, Madrid, Icario Editorial, 1992, pp. Diferencias entre la realidad política rusa y la española, por medio de un esquema ideológico supuestamente progresista, que solapadamente servía para proteger las estructuras de poder y dominio masculino
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