The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880
This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.
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The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880
This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.
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The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880

The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880

by I. Jaksic
The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880

The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880

by I. Jaksic

Hardcover(2007)

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Overview

This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403980793
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 11/07/2007
Series: Studies of the Americas
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

IVÁN JAKSIC is author of Andrés Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, and is Associate Professor of History, Stanford University, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction "My King, My Country, and My Faith": Washington Irving and the Rise and Fall of Spain Labor Ipse Voluptas: George Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature The Enlightened Foreigner: The Reception of Ticknor's Work in the Hispanic World The Spanish Student: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Outre Mer: Longfellow's Hispanic Ties Mary Mann and the Translation of South American Politics The 'Annals of Barbarians':William H. Prescott and the Conquest of the New World 'Follow Your Leader': Prescott's Writings on Spain Conclusion
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