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200 10$aEclipse of empires$b[electronic resource]$eworld history in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture /$fPatricia Jane Roylance
210   $aTuscaloosa, Ala. $cUniversity Alabama Press$dc2013
215   $a1 online resource (238 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aAmerican 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.
330   $aEclipse 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 
606   $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aImperialism in literature
606   $aWorld history in literature
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