@inbook{2d8aa40e46b740d3a9229787a6a2ff59,
title = "Temporalities of the Anti-Modern: Angel Ganivet's Neo-Romantic Mapping of Western Civilisation",
abstract = "This chapter analyses questions of temporality, modernity, and progress within an intra-European South–North axis in an age of a progressing Western modernity, the late-nineteenth century. The empirical evidence is drawn from the travel letters of the Spanish author and diplomat Angel Ganivet, written while he was stationed in Helsinki, and published in 1896–98: Cartas finlandesas (“Letters from Finland”, 1896–98) and his collection of six essays on Norwegian authors, Hombres del norte (“Men from the North”, 1898). Ganivet{\textquoteright}s anti-modern and neo-Romantic attitudes were the foundation of his ideas of a strong dichotomy between the North and South of Europe, ideas that Stadius interprets as a critique of the linear conception of time that usually represented modernity and progress. Ganivet{\textquoteright}s protests against northern ideas of development and modernity, as well as his promotion of a conservative nationalism implies his defence of a cyclical temporality and of the virtues of older times.",
keywords = "6122 Literature studies, Angel Ganivet, travel letters",
author = "Peter Stadius",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "11",
doi = "10.4324/9781003129240",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-367-65390-3",
series = "Routledge Research on Travel Writing",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "210--227",
editor = "Paula Henrikson and Kullberg, {Christina }",
booktitle = "Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1",
}