Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777–1826: rewriting conquest
Heinowitz, Rebecca Cole
Robert Southey did not exaggerate when he described the England of his day as‘South American mad’. Britain’s fascination with the region displayed itself in poems, plays, operas, political tracts, news reportage, travel narratives, and stock market quotations. While ministers debated tactics for liberating both the peoples and the untapped wealth of Spain’s colonies, Britain struggled to justify its actions by means of the problematic assertion that British primacy was authorized by a political, cultural, ethical, and even historical identification with the peoples of Spanish America. Through critical reconsiderations of both canonical and secondary Romantic texts, from Helen Maria Williams’s Peru to Samuel Rogers’s The Voyage of Columbus and Byron’s The Age of Bronze, Heinowitz reveals the untold story of Romantic-era Britain’s Spanish American obsession.
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3868-0
- Editorial: Edinburgh University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés