Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826 - Rewriting Conquest

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Cole Heinowitz is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. Klappentext An examination of Spanish America's impact on the British Romantic literary and political imagination. Zusammenfassung An examination of Spanish America's impact on the British Romantic literary and political imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: "An Empire in Men's Hearts:" The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America; 1. Naturalizing Empire: Helen Maria Williams's Peru and the British Ascendancy in Spanish America; 2. Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792-1799; 3. The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism; 4. "Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:" Visions of Spanish America During the Peninsular War; 5. Lord Byron's "South American Project:" Aristocratic Radicalism and the Question of Venezuelan Settlement; 6. The Spanish American Bubble and Britain's Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822-1826.

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• Authors: Rebecca Cole Heinowitz, Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2010
• EAN: 9780748638680
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-3868-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures; Edinburgh Studies in Transatla; Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures; Edinburgh Studies in Transatla
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous