“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

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