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Author Heinowitz, R. Cole.

Title Spanish America and British romanticism, 1777-1826 : rewriting conquest / Rebecca Cole Heinowitz.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-236) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary Through critical reconsiderations of both canonical and lesser-known romantic texts, Rebecca Cole Heinowitz reveals the untold story of romantic-era Britain's Spanish American obsession.
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Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Romanticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Colonies in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Latin America -- In literature.
Latin America.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1777-1826
1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Heinowitz, R. Cole. Spanish America and British romanticism, 1777-1826. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010 9780748638680 (DLC) 2009512745 (OCoLC)436264622
ISBN 9780748641611 (electronic book)
0748641610 (electronic book)
9780748638680 (hardback)
0748638687 (hardback)