The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880
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ISBN-13:
9781403980793
Veröffentl:
2007
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.11.2007
Seiten:
256
Autor:
I. Jaksic
Gewicht:
517 g
Format:
238x164x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.
This is the first time a scholar has looked in a systematic way at our study of the Hispanic world during the nineteenth century, and the effect it had on the development of the US
Preface Introduction "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 'Follow Your Leader': Prescott's Writings on Spain Conclusion
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