Resumen de Antonio Alcalá Galiano, Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Exchange, and the Idea of a Spanish "National" Literature
This paper explores the role that Antonio Alcala Galiano (1789-1865), one of the leading intellectuals and active politicians of the first half of the nineteenth century, had in the reception of British Romanticism in Spain.(1) His residence in England as an exile during the time of the Absolutist Regime of Ferdinand VII gave way to a shift in his literary and political ideals. Galiano's view of British literature and politics was decisive for his conception of a Spanish national literature, alien to the cliches of contemporary movements, and, at the same time, intimately related to his political liberal program.
