Spain, Portugal, and Great Britain: Notes on a Shared History

The volume aims to offer a broader outlook on the last five hundred years of Anglo-Iberian relations, often reduced to clichéd binaries and largely limited to normative voices. The chapters deal with relatively little-known Anglo-Iberian events and figures. They seek to look beyond persistent ideological biases to foster mutual understanding.

British representations of Spain and Portugal have often relied on persistent ideological biases, prejudices, and interpretations. This volume aims to offer a broader, more nuanced outlook on the last five hundred years of Anglo-Iberian relations. The chapters focus on relatively little-known episodes and figures in Anglo-Iberian history and cover a wide temporal span: from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century. They aim to look beyond the clichéd dichotomies, received ideas, and normative voices that have often charac-terised mainstream studies. Ultimately, the book seeks to expose and transcend stereotyped narratives emphasising Anglo-Spanish acrimony and contribute to mutual understanding.

Autorentext

Carlos Menéndez Otero holds PhD degrees in English studies and in communication and journalism, and currently lectures at the Faculties of Humanities and Commerce, Tourism, and Social Sciences at the University of Oviedo, Spain. His main research interests have to do with Irish and Irish-American history and popular culture, on which he has published extensively. He is a member of the research group "Otras Lenguas" (OLE-5) at the University of Oviedo. Raquel Serrano González is a lecturer in the Department of English, French, and German Philology at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her research focuses on Anglo-Spanish literary and cultural relations, particularly the transposition of Don Quixote and other Cervantine texts into seventeenth-century English drama, with special emphasis on the discursive construction of identity, gender, and sexuality. She is a member of the research group "Grupo de Estudios Cervantinos" (GREC) at the University of Oviedo.

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Anglo-Iberian relations Spanish Dominicans Religion Translation Roderigo de Cuero Paul Rycaut The Critick Diplomacy Politics Emotions Women writers Gertrude Thimelby Iberian motifs, Ideological representations Colonies Darien Scheme Scotland Brazil Periodicals British travellers Don Esteban Reviews Opera Byron en Venecia