Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. ix, 254 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Uniform title

1. Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.

Subject

1. 1700-1899
2. Geschichte 1777-1826
3. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
4. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
5. Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century
6. Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 19th century
7. Colonies in literature
8. 18.05 English literature
9. Literatura inglesa > S.XVIII > Historia y crítica
10. Literatura inglesa > S.XIX > Historia y crítica
11. English literature
12. Literature
13. Romanticism
14. Literatur
15. Romantik
16. Latijns-Amerika
17. Culturele invloeden
18. Englische Literatur > Motiv > Lateinamerika
19. Englische Literatur > Romantik
20. Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siècle
21. Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle
22. Latin America > In literature
23. América española > En la literatura
24. Great Britain
25. Latin America
26. Lateinamerika > Motiv > Englische Literatur
27. Amérique latine > Dans la littérature
28. Englisch
29. Lateinamerika (Motiv)

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. An empire in men's hearts : the liberal conquest of South 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 -- They 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

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