Cargando…
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
University of Alabama Press,
[2013]
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, Incan Peru yielding to Spain, or the Ojibway to the French - heightened the concerns of many American writers about specific intranational social problems plaguing the nation at the time: race, class, gender, religion, and economics. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 225 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817387037 081738703X 9780817313821 0817313826 |