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Cecil Gerahty’s The Road to Madrid: An Anglo-Irish Falstaff in Spain’s Theatre of War
Sell, Jonathan P. A.
Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
The main goal of this article is to make better known a largely neglected work on the Spanish Civil War, The Road to Madrid, and its author, Cecil Gerahty. The work, which combines war reportage with travelogue, is first situated in its publishing context and then its chief claims to historiographical notoriety are explained. There follows a survey of the biographical data available for Gerahty’s life and a sketch of his character and personality based on the internal evidence of his book. After a general overview of The Road to Madrid’s contents and main characteristics, Gerahty’s connoisseurial attitude to the conflict and his aestheticisation of trauma are examined, with a discussion of their possible causes and consequences.
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2018
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No 39 (2018) pags. 11-28
2531-1654
2531-1646
http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33711
https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.11-28
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39
28
eng
https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/2375
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies