British representations of Latin America
By: Luz Elena Ramirez.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813030814
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Colonies in literature; Imperialism in literature; Latin America -- In literature; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Latin America; Great Britain -- Relations -- Latin America; Latin America -- Relations -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A survey of Americanist literature; title: Schomburgk's 1848 edition of Ralegh's Discovery of Guiana; title: The rhetoric of Andean development in Joseph Conrad's Nostromo; title: Science and commerce in Arthur Conan Doyle's The lost world; title: No "accident of geography": Mexican and British relations in Lowry's Under the volcano; title: Graham Greene's Americanist vision: Mexico, Argentina, and Panama.