Joan Maragall i el món anglès: notes sobre literatura, estètica i societat a partir de la seva biblioteca personal

Joan Maragall has been studied as an intellectual, as a critic attentive to the new European trends, and as a journalist committed to the transformation of Barcelona from the turn of the century and beginning of the 20th century. While approaching Maragall’s personal library, and taking into account the journalistic corpus, this article aims to provide an overview of his contact with English literature and English aesthetic and moral culture, with special attention to the affinity with John Ruskin through his peculiar view on women. It includes at the end a reflection on the city of Barcelona from an interlocutor well informed by Maragall, the American art historian and collector Royall Tyler.