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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
University of Alabama Press,
[2013]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Roylance, Patricia Jane. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Eclipse of Empires : |b World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture / |c Patricia Jane Roylance. |
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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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a World history in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01181362 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Imperialism in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00968142 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a American literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM |x American |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Histoire universelle dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Imperialisme dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Litterature americaine |y 19e siecle |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World history in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Imperialism in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a American literature |y 19th century |x History and criticism. | |
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