Cosmopolitan “Clarín” and American literature: erudition, nationalism and critical tensions in the defense of the Spanish canon
Abstract
In the nineteenth-century Spanish intellectual field, Leopoldo Alas “Clarín” occupied the privileged role of critic capable of organizing the desirable canon of modern literature. However, facing the crisis and the loss of the last colonies, different areas of the Clarinian praxis reveal remarkable familiarities with the more conservative erudition. From the claim of the Golden Age canon to the reaction against the American modernisms, Clarín exhibits a nationalism rarely studied for the complete understanding of his critical production.
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