Eric Wertheimer

Imagined Empires

Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771 1876

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the influence of South American culture on early American culture, in particular literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521110075
• ISBN-10: 0521110076
• Artikelnr.: 26104792

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: ancient America in the postcolonial national imaginary
1. Commencements: pre-Columbian worlds and Philip Freneau's literature of American empire
2. Diplomacy: Joel Barlow's scripting and subscripting of ancient America
3. Noctography: Prescott's sketchings of Aztecs and Incas
4. Mutations: Melville, representation, and South American history
5. Passage: two rivulets and the obscurity of American maps.