Eloquent silence: the transformation of Spain in British balladry between the Peninsular War and the Carlist Wars
Among the ten items labelled “Peninsular War ballads” in the website Broadside Ballads Online of the Bodleian Libraries two evidently date from the First Carlist War, and show a different mood. The remaining eight items related to the 1807-1815 period are actually only five, as two of them are diff...
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Among the ten items labelled “Peninsular War ballads” in the website Broadside Ballads Online of the Bodleian Libraries two evidently date from the First Carlist War, and show a different mood. The remaining eight items related to the 1807-1815 period are actually only five, as two of them are different editions of the same songs, and another is merely about the setting in the Horse Guards Parade, London, of a memorial to the lifting of the siege of Cádiz in 1812. While the five true Peninsular War ballads represent it as a patriotic enterprise on behalf of brave Spaniards fighting tyrannical invaders, the two set in the Carlist War portray a more individualized adventure of soldiers of fortune. This new approach after 1815 suggests a more limited popular understanding of Spanish politics. Spain is no longer a scenario for the defence of universal principles, but for the reckless adventure of particular men.
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| spelling | doaj.art-f910f59db8504fa38acfdbadcc8ec3cb2022-12-22T03:17:32ZengUniversidad de JaénThe Grove1137-005X2386-54312016-12-0123Eloquent silence: the transformation of Spain in British balladry between the Peninsular War and the Carlist WarsJ. Rubén Valdés Miyares0University of Oviedo Among the ten items labelled “Peninsular War ballads” in the website Broadside Ballads Online of the Bodleian Libraries two evidently date from the First Carlist War, and show a different mood. The remaining eight items related to the 1807-1815 period are actually only five, as two of them are different editions of the same songs, and another is merely about the setting in the Horse Guards Parade, London, of a memorial to the lifting of the siege of Cádiz in 1812. While the five true Peninsular War ballads represent it as a patriotic enterprise on behalf of brave Spaniards fighting tyrannical invaders, the two set in the Carlist War portray a more individualized adventure of soldiers of fortune. This new approach after 1815 suggests a more limited popular understanding of Spanish politics. Spain is no longer a scenario for the defence of universal principles, but for the reckless adventure of particular men. http://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/view/2856Broadside balladspopular culture19th-century literaturewar poetryBritish interventionism in Spain |
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| title | Eloquent silence: the transformation of Spain in British balladry between the Peninsular War and the Carlist Wars |
| title_full | Eloquent silence: the transformation of Spain in British balladry between the Peninsular War and the Carlist Wars |
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| title_short | Eloquent silence: the transformation of Spain in British balladry between the Peninsular War and the Carlist Wars |
| title_sort | eloquent silence the transformation of spain in british balladry between the peninsular war and the carlist wars |
| topic | Broadside ballads popular culture 19th-century literature war poetry British interventionism in Spain |
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