Table of Contents

Introduction - the historical background to the crisis of 1898, Joseph Harrison; introduction - the intellectual debate, Alan Hoyle. Part 1 Regenerationism: tackling national decadence -economic regenerationism in Spain after the colonial debacle, Joseph Harrison; Unamuno and the Restoration political project - a reevaluation, Stephen Roberts; "amor y pedagogia" - an object lesson in biography, Gordon Minter; horrible children, Nicholas Round; Ramiro de Maetzu - Hispanidad and the search for a surrogate imperialism, Alistair Hennessy. Part 2 Modernism: El "98" que nunca existio, Javier Blasco; authority or authenticity? the battle of the cultures at the millennial crossroads, Alison Sinclair; the "feminine element" - "fin de siecle" Spain, modernity and the woman writer, Susan Kirkpatrick; deconstructing the binaries of "enfrentismo" - Jose-Maria Llanas Aguilaniedo's "Navegar pintoresco" and the finisecular novel, Richard Dardwell; noventaiocho y novela - lo viejo y lo nuevo, Alex Longhurst; the function of landscape in Baroja's "La lucha por la vida", Alan Hoyle; constructing the 98 - Perez de Ayala's 1942 prologue to "Troteras y danzaderas", John Macklin; la percepcion sensorial y el texto modernista, German Gullon; modernism and imperialism, Patricia McDermott. Part 3 Postcolonialism: the Cuban search for national identity, Tony Kapcia; the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98) in West Indian literature, Emilio Jorge Rodriguez; el discurso femenino finisecular en Cuba - Aurelia del Castillo y otras voces en torno al 98, Mirta Yanez; popular and intellectual responses to 1898 in Puerto Rico, John D. Perivolaris; Jose Rizal, the Philippines and 1898, Bill Watson.

About the Author

Joseph Harrison is Senior Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Manchester.
Alan Hoyle is Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Manchester.