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This book explores the connections that José Joaquín de Mora (1783–1864) established with Britain, where he was exiled from 1823 to 1826 and was to return as diplomat in the following decades. His admiration for the British materialised in a series of cultural transfers aimed at the promotion and diffusion of British culture in Spain and Spanish America. He contributed to the popularization of Bentham’s utilitarianism, the principles of British classical economy, and the philosophy of the Scottish School of Common Sense; he translated texts by Scott and Shakespeare and wrote an unfinished version of Byron’s Don Juan; and, above all, he presented Britain as a model for the political, economic, and literary regeneration of the Hispanic world.

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Sara Medina Calzada teaches English language and literature at the University of Valladolid (Spain). Her main research interest is in Anglo-Hispanic historical and cultural relations in the nineteenth century and, more particularly, in the literary activities of the Spanish liberal exiles in London (1823–1833), the reception of British literature in the Hispanic world, and the representations of Spain in Romantic Britain.

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