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Article: Ruin and Restitution: Reinterpreting Romanticism in Spain.(Review)
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- The Romanic Review
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- March 1, 1999
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Ruin and Restitution: Reinterpreting Romanticism in Spain. Philip W. Silver Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. Pp. 175.
Ruin and Restitution: is not just one more work about the poetics of Spanish romanticism, but one of those rare books which, from time to rime, capsize received knowledge. It asks questions that have been staring Hispanists in the face without being explicitly formulated, questions about all they purportedly wanted to know about class, nation, politics, and ideology, but did not dare to ask. By tacitly locating recent literary historiography in the national romantic continuum that constitutes his object of study, Philip Silver provides ...