Eclipse of empires : world history in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / Patricia Jane Roylance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roylance, Patricia Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Imperialism in literature.

World history in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University Alabama Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eclipse of Empires analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls "narratives of imperial eclipse," texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another.Patricia Jane Roylance's central claim in Eclipse of Empires is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse, for example Incan Peru yielding to Spain or the Ojibway to the French, heightened the concerns of many American writers about specific intranational social problems plaguing the nation at the time-race, class, gender, religion, economics. Given

Contents:

American principles and Italian things: Cooper's political gleanings in Italy

Calculating the consequences: property fears in Prescott's conquest of Peru

Inquisition: religious tolerance and Motley's rise of the Dutch republic

The vanishing Dutchman: ethnicity in Irving's A history of New York

Northmen and Native Americans: Longfellow's resistance to eclipse.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 5, 2013).

ISBN:

0-8173-8703-X

OCLC:

856870586