02755nam 2200577 a 450 991078730240332120230803031114.00-8173-8703-X(CKB)2670000000411649(EBL)1354786(OCoLC)856870586(SSID)ssj0000980871(PQKBManifestationID)11530414(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980871(PQKBWorkID)10969669(PQKB)11537721(OCoLC)859162398(MiAaPQ)EBC1354786(MdBmJHUP)muse28669(Au-PeEL)EBL1354786(CaPaEBR)ebr10749510(EXLCZ)99267000000041164920130905d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEclipse of empires[electronic resource]world history in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture /Patricia Jane RoylanceTuscaloosa, Ala. University Alabama Pressc20131 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1382-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismImperialism in literatureWorld history in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Imperialism in literature.World history in literature.810.9/358Roylance Patricia Jane1561885MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787302403321Eclipse of empires3828986UNINA