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Author:

Havard, John C., author.

Title:

Hispanicism and early US literature : Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the origins of US national identity / John C. Havard.

Publisher:

The University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

viii, 212 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--Latin American influences.
American literature--Spanish influences.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Latin America--In literature.
Spain--In literature.
American literature.
American literature--Latin American influences.
American literature--Spanish influences.
Literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Latin America.
Spain.
1700-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Joel Barlow's The vision of Columbus and the Columbiad: US national identity and Spain -- James Fenimore Cooper's Mercedes of Castile and Jack Tier: realism and hispanicism -- Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" as critique of hispanicist exceptionalism: cosmopolitanism and ironizing identity -- Mary Peabody Mann's Juanita: Cuba and US national identity -- Jose Antonio Saco's antiannexationist essays: Cuba, hispanicism, and national identity -- Epilogue: The hispanicist forebears of 1898.

ISBN:

0817319778
9780817319779

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1004981727

LCCN:

2017038246

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)