Generación del '98

To what extent does a national crisis, the Spanish defeat of 1898 by the United States, provoke a movement of patriotic revaluation, the so-called "Generation of '98"? Or are the symptoms of crisis more in accord with fin de siècle aesthetics, which incites literary experimentation in all the traditional genres? These crucial questions will be studied in such typical authors as Unamuno, Baroja, Azorín, Antonio Machado, and Ramón del Valle-Inclán.