Spanish America and British romanticism, 1777-1826 : rewriting conquest / [electronic resource]
Heinowitz, R. Cole,author.
An examination of Spanish America's impact on the British Romantic literary and political imagination.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-236) and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
An empire in men's hearts : the liberal conquest of Spanish 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 -- 'Thy 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.
An examination of Spanish America's impact on the British Romantic literary and political imagination.
English literature
English literature
Romanticism
Romanticism
Colonies in literature.