Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth Century Public - Spher

Informationen zum Autor Anna Brickhouse is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Klappentext Anna Brickhouse uncovers interactions between United States! Latin American and Caribbean literatures in the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging comparative study reassesses the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within its transamerican and multilingual contexts. Anna Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent from Latin American and Caribbean literatures that shaped this most formative period of literary production in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note on texts and translations; Prologue; 1. Introduction: transamerican renaissance; 2. Scattered traditions: the transamerican genealogies of Jicoténcal; 3. A francophone view of comparative American literature: Revue des Colonies and the translations of abolition; 4. Cuban stories; 5. Hawthorne's Mexican genealogies; 6. Transamerican theatre: Pierre Faubert and L'Oncle Tom; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Anna Brickhouse, Anna (University of Colorado Brickhouse
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521101011
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10101-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies