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- Title
Viejos ropajes para una nueva monarquía. Género y nación en la refundación simbólica de la Corona de Isabel II (1858-1866).
- Authors
Narciso Martín, David San
- Abstract
The monarchy survived a century of revolutions because of its enormous capacity to adapt to political, social and cultural changes. Especially important was its role as the political representative of the nation, and its ability to unify the territory both culturally and politically. This article analyses how the monarchy used fashion to represent an integrated multinational state. By so doing, it performed the political function that liberalism had entrusted to it in the nineteenth century. Similarly, the Monarchy succeeded in defining itself in a post-revolutionary cultural and political context by portraying itself somewhere between an exceptional and a quotidian institution. It did this by increasingly employing a discourse of gender. To be sure, the Monarchy participated actively in the political and cultural arena by controlling mechanisms of definition, spaces of representation and symbols of identity.
- Subjects
SPAIN; SPANISH monarchy; ISABELLA II, Queen of Spain, 1830-1904; NATIONALISM; LIBERALISM; GENDER studies; FASHION history; GENDER identity; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Ayer: Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 2017, Vol 108, Issue 4, p203
- ISSN
1134-2277
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.55509/ayer/108-2017-09