Catalunya i democràcia: el cercle de Víctor Balaguer en 1857-1860

Identifier:  imarina:6363804

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina6363804

Authors:  Magí Sunyer Molné

Abstract:
Víctor Balaguer, in 1866, distinguished two schools in the Catalan literature of the time based on their respective use of the country’s history: one he depicted “as a holy relic for the blessed contemplation of its devotees”, while the other he portrayed as “a field of discussion”. Balaguer encapsulated this second school, forged in the years 1857-1860, as one in which Catalan literature began to treat the issue of relations between Catalonia and Spain as a major theme. It did so by means of a repertoire of historicalexamples that sought to show a Catalan history in defence of democracy, battling against absolutism and despotism