Andres Bello - Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Klappentext This is the first book-length biography in English of Andres Bello! the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual. Zusammenfassung This biography of Andrés Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, statesman and poet, was the first to appear in English. It provides a comprehensive interpretation of Bello's work, gives an account of his life based on new information from archives in four countries, and sheds new light on this critical period in Latin American history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The formation of a colonial scholar, 1781-1810; 2. Exile and scholarship in London, 1810-20; 3. The diplomacy of Independence, 1820-9; 4. In the 'land of anarchy', 1829-40; 5. A decade of triumph, 1840-50; 6. The rule of law; 7. The return of Mio Cid; 8. Conclusion: farewell to Nestor.

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• Authors: Ivan Jaksic, Ivan (University of Notre Dame Jaksic
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027595
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02759-5
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studi; Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Latin America, History of Ideas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Literary studies: poetry and poets