Eclipse of empires : world history in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture /
Roylance, Patricia Jane.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-218) and index.
American 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.
American literature
Imperialism in literature.
World history in literature.