Open AccessV�ctor Balaguer, Historian and Politician, and the Invention of Catalan Nationalist Rhetoric: An In
Author(s) -
Enric Ucelay Da Cal
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
cercles
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 1699-7468
pISSN - 1139-0158
DOI - 10.1344/cercles2016.19.1014
Subject(s) - catalan , rhetoric , nationalism , art , political science , philosophy , humanities , law , theology , politics
Enric Ucelay-Da Cal presents Vìctor Balaguer as a key Romantic historian, who established the canon of Catalan National History.Given the obsessive historicism of Catalan nationalism, this implicitlymakes him a major figure in its logical construction. Ucelay-Da Cal situatesBalaguer in the stream of nineteenth-century historical culture in Europeand the Americas, and presents a broad-based interpretation of Balaguer’srole as a historian by comparison to general historiografic trendsand to political developments