The last good land : Spain in American literature /
Suárez Galbán, Eugenio.
Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,
2011.
Looks at the presence and infuence of Spain and Spanish literature on American literature, focusing on 20th century authors.
Spain and the United States within the Western tradition -- The pioneers : Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- From romantic idealization to realistic ambiguity, or from the Civil War to the Cuban War -- W.D. Howells : the future that never became a present -- Santayana, or the existential confirmation of stereotypes -- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas : the lost generation rediscovers Spain -- John Dos Passos : Rosinante's winding road to the right -- Virgin Spain : Jewish-American travel literature -- Hemingway : stories of the last good land -- Two women at war : Lillian Hellman and Josephine Herbst -- Spain is beautiful : Claude McKay and Langston Hughes dream heaven -- Saul Bellow's "The Gonazaga manuscripts" : Spain is Europe -- Not so good, but still good : William Gaddis, Chester Himes, Nelson Algren -- Pagan Spain : ethnicity and religion in Richard Wright -- Spain as autobiography : Barbara Probst Solomon.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-405) and index.
Looks at the presence and infuence of Spain and Spanish literature on American literature, focusing on 20th century authors.
American literature
American literature
Authors, American
Americans