“Not writing a regular narrative”: Washington Irving’s Construction of Granada in British and Transatlantic Romantic-Period Literature
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En sus obras dedicadas a Granada y la
Alhambra, Washington Irving no se limitó
a crear distorsiones entretenidas de hechos
históricos en el contexto de una geografía
remota y ornamentada de un agradable
color local. De hecho, A Chronicle of the
Conquest of Granada (1829) y The Alhambra
(1832) muestran una compleja
operación de producción de la geografía
cultural granadina mediante una combinación
de diferentes modelos epistémicos
y de representación. Estas obras producen
Granada y la Alhambra ubicándolas dentro
de narraciones “irregulares” y visiblemente
híbridas, así como en medio de distintas
preocupaciones estéticas y procedimientos
epistemológicos
In his works on Granada and the Alhambra, Washington Irving did not merely fashion entertaining distortions of historical facts set in a remote and pleasingly colourful geography. Instead, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (1829) and The Alhambra (1832) set in train a complex operation of production of Granada’s cultural geography by combining different forms of knowledge and representation. These texts produce Granada and the Alhambra by locating them within conspicuously hybridized and “irregular” narratives at the nexus of multiple aesthetic concerns and forms of knowledge
In his works on Granada and the Alhambra, Washington Irving did not merely fashion entertaining distortions of historical facts set in a remote and pleasingly colourful geography. Instead, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (1829) and The Alhambra (1832) set in train a complex operation of production of Granada’s cultural geography by combining different forms of knowledge and representation. These texts produce Granada and the Alhambra by locating them within conspicuously hybridized and “irregular” narratives at the nexus of multiple aesthetic concerns and forms of knowledge







