The Hispanic world and American intellectual life, 1820-1880 / Iván Jaksić.

Author/Creator:

Jaksic, Ivan, 1954-

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Series:

Studies of the Americas

Format/Description:

Book
x, 256 p. ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
Scholars -- United States -- Biography.
Historians -- United States -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
United States -- Civilization -- Hispanic influences.
National characteristics, American.
Spain -- Civilization.
Spain -- Colonies -- America.

Contents:

"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
Knights-errant and bigots : Prescott's writings on Spain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.

ISBN:

1403980799
9781403980793

OCLC:

82673598

Web link:

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Online:

Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0707/2007004613-t.html

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