Unrequited Conquests
Subtitle: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780226306704
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Cultural studies; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; History - General History; English; Europe; Latin America; Modern - General; North American; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Poetry; Semiotics & Theory; European poetry; History and criticism; Love poetry, European; Love poetry, Latin American; Renaissance, 1450-1600
First sentence: As the Columbian quincentennial anniversary has become a closed chapter of recent history, it is more feasible than ever to propose what scholars of the early modern period have known for years-that as much as anyone of his time, Christopher Columbus's place in history and culture is a constructed one.