With the main goal of contributing to a wider understanding of the presenceof Spanish literature and culture in British Romanticism, this book focuseson the instrumental role played by the British periodical press in theAnglo-Spanish literary and cultural exchange in the first half of the nineteenthcentury. All the chapters bear witness to the contrasting and variedperception of everything Spanish, the different strategies of exploration, appropriationand rewriting of its cultural and literary tradition. Besides, theyall reveal the intricate web of cultural, political and religious factors tingingthe discourse of British Romantic literary critics and authors on the Spanishcultural capital.