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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)
Author(s) -
AndreuMiralles Xavier
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0424.12533
Subject(s) - fatherland , virility , liberalism , citizenship , humanism , period (music) , masculinity , context (archaeology) , politics , sociology , gender studies , history , political science , law , aesthetics , philosophy , archaeology
Abstract The ideal of the patriotic citizen‐soldier familiar from civic humanism re‐emerged in Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Spaniards were required to uphold a model of masculinity that was continually threatened by ‘effeminacy’. The study of this model is approached through an analysis of literary texts: the main neoclassical tragedies and the main liberal patriotic collections of the period. The article thus allows us to explore Spanish revolutionary subjectivities in the early ‐nineteenth century and the political dynamics to which they gave rise and so provides insights into how citizenship, national identity and the categories of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ were built in Spain in a period marked by a deep revolutionary break.