Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.
Contents:
Putting the world in order: John Lloyd Stephens's Narration of America -- North of eden: romance and conquest in Fanny Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico -- In search of "America": the rhetoric of travel in Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Viajes en Europa, Africa i America -- Traveling with your "type": Mr. and Mrs. Louis Agassiz's A journey in Brazil -- With a colt, a brush, and a pen: George Catlin's Preservation of the Indian -- Wandering through the house: Fanny Chambers Gooch's Face to face with the Mexicans -- Democratic degradation of the new world and Spanish American regeneration in Marti's Escenas Norteamericanas.
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