Kirsty Hooper

Spas, steamships and sardines: Edwardian package tourism and the marketing of Galician regionalism

Abstract From 1901 until the First World War, alongside its principal business of shipping rubber and leather to and from the USA and Northern Brazil, Liverpools Booth Steamship Company (familiarly known as the ‘Booth Line’) ran a portfolio of highly successful holiday tours to Madeira, Portugal and Galicia. Although this side of the companys business has long been forgotten by business and maritime historians, this paper argues that the companys leisure tours were an important contribution to the early history of British tourism in Spain. In addition, it argues that we should not underestimate the significance of this project for our understanding of Galicias own history, and in particular for expanding our understanding of the Galician regionalist movement and its relationship with the wider world.

Ríos, fontes, peiraos, and océanos: Hydropoetics and the Galician Cultural Imagination

This chapter proposes reading Galician cultural history through a hydropoetic framework, that is, through an imaginary that privileges the intersection of aesthetics and history with the oceanic and maritime world. Using as case studies the contrasting works of Galicia’s national poet Rosalia de Castro and the liberal geographer Gabriel Castro Arias, it investigates their contributions to the nineteenth-century project to generate a meaningful cartography for the modern Galician nation. Ultimately, it argues that thanks to a combination of external pressures and internal priorities, it would be the former’s introspective geopoetic imaginary, rather than the latter’s demand for integration into grand maritime narratives, that shaped the emerging Galician cultural imagination.

Death and the Maiden: Gender, Nation, and the Imperial Compromise in Blanca de los Ríos's Sangre española (1899)

iAmigos mios, sed testigos en la presencia de Dios de que yo, Guillermo Richemond, baron de Siegberg, he sido un asesino miserable, obstinandome en obtener por fuerza el amor de esa martir sublime, cuyo cadaver solemnemente restituyo a su patria, para que duerma por toda la eternidad entre los pliegues de esa bandera, como en el regazo de su madre! Yo jure conquistar a esa mujer mientras el Emperador conquistase a su independiente patria. iCesar Napoleon, he ahi nuestra victoria! iEso hallaron nuestras armas en Zaragoza y en Gerona! [. . .] iUn cadaver heroico envuelto en una bandera invencible! iAy del que intente someter a esa raza de numan tinos, a esa indomable sangre espanola! (187) l