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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457969003321

Autore

Heinowitz R. Cole

Titolo

Spanish America and British romanticism, 1777-1826 : rewriting conquest / / Rebecca Cole Heinowitz [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-7486-5170-5

1-282-62040-1

9786612620409

0-7486-4161-0

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Disciplina

820.9358809033

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Romanticism - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Romanticism - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Colonies in literature

Latin America In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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