The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 [electronic resource] /
Jaksic, I.author.
This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 "My King, My Country, and My Faith": Washington Irving's Writings on the Rise and Fall of Spain; 2 Labor Ipse Voluptas: George Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature; 3 The Enlightened Foreigner: The Reception of Ticknor's Work in the Hispanic World; 4 The Spanish Student: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; 5 Outre-Mer: Longfellow's Hispanic Ties; 6 Mary Peabody Mann and the Translation of South American Politics; 7 The "Annals of Barbarians": William H. Prescott and the Conquest of the New World
8 Knights-Errant and Bigots: Prescott's Writings on SpainConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.
This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
America-History.
Ethnology-Latin America.
United States-History.
History, Modern.
North American Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
History of the Americas.
Latin American Culture.
US History.
Modern History.