Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777–1826 : : Rewriting Conquest / / Rebecca Cole Heinowitz.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures : ESTLI
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘An Empire in Men’s Hearts:’ The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America
- 1. Naturalizing Empire: Helen Maria Williams’s Peru and the British Ascendancy in Spanish America
- 2. Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792–9
- 3. The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey’s Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
- 4. ‘Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:’ Visions of Spanish America during the Peninsular War
- 5. Lord Byron’s ‘South American Project:’ Aristocratic Radicalism and the Question of Venezuelan Settlement
- 6. The Spanish American Bubble and Britain’s Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822–6
- Bibliography
- Index