| The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Jaksic, I. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403980799 ISBN-13: 9781403980793 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $49.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispanic world. The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country's identity after Independence and the War 1812, a crucial time for the young republic, and that they found inspiration in a most unlikely place: the seat of the collapsing Spanish empire. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American - History | United States - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 810 |
| LCCN: 2007004613 |
| Series: Studies of the Americas (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.46" W x 9.37" (1.14 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity. |