%0 Journal Article 
%A Casado de Otaola, Santos
%T Nacionalizar la naturaleza. Ciencias naturales y discursos nacionalistas en la España del regeneracionismo
%D 2011
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20529
%X The intertwining of science and literature is a prominent feature of those 
nationalistic discourses, spanning the turn-of-the-century decades from 
approximately 1870 to 1930, that have become regarded as typical of Spanish 
regeneracionismo. Naturalists, such as geologist and mining engineer, Lucas 
Mallada, or geographer and geologist, Eduardo Hernández-Pacheco, tapped 
into the intellectual authority of science in order to provide new narratives of 
Spanish nature as the ultimate source of both national identity and national 
prosperity. First, if Spaniards were to have a realistic account of the 
opportunities and obstacles involved in their millenary relationship with a rich 
and diverse, but nonetheless rugged and harsh, natural environment, a full 
scientific survey of the Spanish territory was in order. Second, inspirations for a 
renewed and strengthened national identity could be derived from a re-examination  of Spanish nature. In the midst of a particularly acute fin-de-siècle
crisis, many intellectuals turned towards the natural landscape as a source of 
healing and regeneration, hoping to rejuvenate a deep, ages-old, organic 
relationship between the Spanish people and Iberian nature.

%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala