Spanish America and British romanticism, 1777-1826 : rewriting conquest / Rebecca Cole Heinowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heinowitz, R. Cole, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Romanticism--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Romanticism.

Romanticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Colonies in literature.

Latin America--In literature.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Spanish America & British Romanticism 1777-1826

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An examination of Spanish America's impact on the British Romantic literary and political imagination.

Contents:

An empire in men's hearts : the liberal conquest of Spanish America

Naturalizing empire : Helen Maria Williams's Peru and the British ascendancy in Spanish America

Creole patriotism and the discourse of revolutionary loyalism, 1792-9

The allure of the same : Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the rhetoric of good colonialism

'Thy world, Columbus, shall be free' : visions of Spanish America during the Peninsular War

Lord Byron's 'South American project' : aristocratic radicalism and the question of Venezuelan settlement

The Spanish American bubble and Britain's crisis of informal empire, 1822-6.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-236) and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

0-7486-5170-5

1-282-62040-1

9786612620409

0-7486-4161-0

OCLC:

638860127