This book focuses on the “anticlerical industry”—the mass-production of anticlerical newspapers, novels, cartoons, and other propaganda forms produced by republican muckrakers, journalists, and politicians, especially José Nakens—in order to demonstrate the centrality of anticlericalism to the debates regarding alternate forms of government in Spain, and competing visions of Spanish identity in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. Utilizing anticlericalism, radical republicans sought to call into question the legitimacy of the monarchy by tying it to what they argued was a corrupt and abusive Catholic Church and clergy in the hopes of paving the way to the coming of a lasting Republican polity.
Introduction
• Anticlericalism in Modern Spain and Europe: Struggles over Nation-Building
• José Nakens within the New Politics and Nationalist/Republican Culture
• José Nakens and Republican Anticlericalism: Making an Anticlerical-Nationalist Tradition
• Republicanism, Anarchism, Anticlericalism, and the Attempted Regicide of 1906
• The Gendered Language of Republican Anticlericalism
• Spanish Anticlerical’s Long Decade, 1898-1910
• Conclusion
Overview
This book focuses on the “anticlerical industry”—the mass-production of anticlerical newspapers, novels, cartoons, and other propaganda forms produced by republican muckrakers, journalists, and politicians, especially José Nakens—in order to demonstrate the centrality of anticlericalism to the debates regarding alternate forms of government in Spain, and competing visions of Spanish identity in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. Utilizing anticlericalism, radical republicans sought to call into ...