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The Hispanic world and American intellectual life, 1820-1880 / Iván Jaksić.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaksic, Ivan, 1954-
- Series:
- Studies of the Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- Intellectuals--United States--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Scholars--United States--Biography.
- Scholars.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- United States--Civilization--Hispanic influences.
- Civilization.
- National characteristics, American.
- Spain--Civilization.
- Spain.
- Spain--Colonies--America.
- Colonies.
- America.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 256 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispanic world.& The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country's identity after Independence and the War 1812, a crucial time for the young republic, and that they found inspiration in a most unlikely place: the seat of the collapsing Spanish empire.
- Contents:
- "My king, my country, and my faith" : Washington Irving and the rise and fall of Spain
- Labor ipse voluptas : George Ticknor's history of Spanish literature
- The enlightened foreigner : the reception of Ticknor's work in the Hispanic world
- The Spanish student : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Outre mer : Longfellow's Hispanic ties
- Mary Mann and the translation of South American politics
- The "Annals of barbarians" : William H. Prescott and the conquest of the new world
- Knights-errant and bigots : Prescott's writings on Spain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-246) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403980799
- 9781403980793
- OCLC:
- 82673598
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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