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Eclipse of empires : world history in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture /

This book analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what the author calls "narratives of imperial eclipse," texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another. The central claim in this book is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse - for example, I...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roylance, Patricia Jane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion. 
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