Cervantes: Statue in Madrid, Monument of the Nation
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https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2014.014Keywords:
Monumentalization, Cultural Symbols, Cervantes, Statue in 1835, Spanish Democracy, National Unity, Lettered CirclesAbstract
This paper revisits the erection of a statue of Cervantes in Madrid, 1835. Drawing on Rachel Schmidt and Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos, I link this statue to the cultural and political process of symbolic monumentalization of Cervantes. This process originated in late Spanish Enlightenment, followed up by Godoy’s government and the “afrancesados”. After the Ominous Decade, during the final crisis of Ferdinand VII and the first “democratic” governments under María Cristina’s regency, Cervantes would became a cultural symbol of national unity.
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