Iberianism and Crisis: Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

"Iberianism and Crisis does something unique for a scholarly study: It excavates an anachronism in a way that offers perspective on the present, brilliantly showing at every step the enormous value of crossing disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of broader humanistic and intercultural understanding."

Brian Cope, The College of Wooster, Hispania

"Iberianism and Crisis is a major contribution to research in the field of Iberian studies. Working in several　linguistic, cultural, and national traditions with impressive ease, Robert Patrick Newcomb’s approach to Iberian studies is multifaceted. Iberianism and Crisis not only gives a comprehensive critical history of how the thought and writing of some of the central literary and intellectual peninsular figures of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century were informed by Iberianism, but it also explores a more conceptual question that investigates the connections between Iberianism and crisis. Newcomb makes this critical history relevant to present concerns about the future directions of the emerging field of Iberian studies, and the subsequent replacement of academic Hispanism with Iberian studies."

Estela Vieira, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington

"An intelligent contribution to the ongoing challenge of forging the academic field of Iberian Studies, Newcomb's book presents the emergence of Iberian thinking, or "Iberismo," in connection with local, regional, and European trends of fin-de-siècle crisis while, at the same time, inviting us to think beyond the conjunctures that have tended to exclude some regions of the Iberian Peninsula in the struggle against the cultural hegemony of Castilian Spain."

Ana Paula Ferreira, Professor of Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota