@inbook{6c658bbc7bf24c46881ce5895a9a6e00,
title = "The shape of the public sphere in Spain (1860-1899): a dream of generalities",
abstract = "This essay reconsiders the notion of the {"}public{"} in liberal Spain in the second half of the nineteenth century, by looking at the words people most often used in relation to it. It argues that the public sphere, as it existed historically in Spain, might not have been so overwhelmingly concerned as we might imagine with public/private distinctions, difference among political parties, the critical fiscal situation, or even nationhood or {"}communitas{"}. Instead, the notion of the {"}public{"} conveyed an aspiration of transforming a single country into a realm of instruction in shared knowledge, a collective governed by directive and prescriptive laws and rights, realised by its administrators. Shimmering on the public sphere{\textquoteright}s horizon lay a didactic, jurisprudential, law-bound, hygienic, but un-oppressive realm that would be called Spain.",
keywords = "public, public sphere, Spain, liberalism, nationalism, keywords, hygiene",
author = "Andrew Ginger",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-78920-235-9",
series = "Studies in Latin American and Spanish History",
publisher = "Berghahn Books",
editor = "Jim{\'e}nez, {David } and {Villamediana Gonz{\'a}lez}, Leticia",
booktitle = "The configuration of the Spanish public sphere",
}