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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794128803321

Autore

Reeder Jessie <1982->

Titolo

The forms of informal empire : Britain, Latin America, and nineteenth-century literature / / Jessie Reeder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-4214-3808-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

820.93588

Soggetti

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History - 19th century

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Imperialism in literature

Colonies in literature

Latin America In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Freedom and Empire in the Nineteenth Century -- Part I. Progress and Informal Empire, 1808-1875: Sequence, Protagonist, Paradox. Chapter 1: (In)dependence: Simón Bolívar and Revolutionary Forms of Progress. Chapter 2: "Dependant Kings": Anna Barbauld and a Paradox Deterred. Chapter 3: The Collapse of Historical Telos: Anthony Trollope and Victorian Informal Empire -- Part II: Family and Informal Empire, 1840-1926: Origin, Relation, Hybridity. Chapter 4: Re-membering the Nation: Vicente López and the Consolidation of Informal Empire. Chapter 5: The Antagonism of Valid Fiancees: H. Rider Haggard and Informal Empire at the Fin de Siecle. Chapter 6: Where Progress and Family (Fail to) Meet: William Henry Hudson and the Industrialization of the PampasCoda.

Sommario/riassunto

"This is a work of comparative literary study that examines the influence of Great Britain's informal empire in Latin America that followed Spain's relinquishment of its New World formal empire. The author finds effects of informal empire (involving maritime trade and markets primarily) in the literary forms of novels, poems, and letters. Britain's informal empire in Latin America lasted from the early



nineteenth century until the 1920s"--