At the beginning of The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays (New York, 1962), W. H. Auden states, “so long as a man writes poetry or fiction, his dream of Eden is his own business, but the moment he starts writing literary criticism, honesty demands that he describe it to his readers, so that they may be in the position to judge his judgments.” He then goes on to answer a questionnaire devised by himself with a view to doing exactly that. Although a blow-by-blow description of any particular dream of Eden is hardly necessary to ground a judgment on Elliott’s book, it will not be out of place to say that this reviewer supports the Catalan pacifist pro-independence movement and is in favor of an independent Catalan republic. After all, as Auden pointed out, “All the judgments, aesthetic or moral, that we pass, however objective we try to make them,...
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Winter 2020
November 01 2019
Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion
Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion
. By J. H.
Elliott
(New Haven
, Yale University Press
, 2018
) 360 pp. $30.00
Jordi Larios
Jordi Larios
University of St. Andrews
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Jordi Larios
University of St. Andrews
Online ISSN: 1530-9169
Print ISSN: 0022-1953
© 2019 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2019
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2019) 50 (3): 452–453.
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Jordi Larios; Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2019; 50 (3): 452–453. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01459
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