Eclipse of empires world history in Nineteenth-Century U.S. literature and culture

Eclipse of empires : world history in Nineteenth-Century U.S. literature and culture / Patricia Jane Roylance.

Author/creator	Roylance, Patricia Jane
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Description	x, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	American literature--19th century --History and criticism. Imperialism in literature. World history in literature.

Contents	American principles and Italian things: Cooper's political gleanings in Italy -- Calculating the consequences: property fears in Prescott's conquest of Peru -- Inquisition: religious tolerance and Motley's rise of the Dutch republic -- The vanishing Dutchman: ethnicity in Irving's A history of New York -- Northmen and Native Americans: Longfellow's resistance to eclipse.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-218) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013006460
ISBN	9780817313821 (trade cloth : alk. paper)

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