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Author Brickhouse, Anna.

Title Transamerican literary relations and nineteenth-century public sphere / by Anna Brickhouse
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 329 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 145
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 145.
Contents Introduction: transamerican renaissance -- Scattered traditions: the transamerican genealogies of Jicoténcal -- A francophone view of comparative American literature: Revue des Colonies and the translations of abolition -- Cuban stories -- Hawthorne's Mexican genealogies -- Transamerican theatre: Pierre Faubert and L'Oncle Tom -- Epilogue "Our whole Caribbean elsewhere": Julia Alvarez and transamarican renaissance at the millennium
Summary This wide-ranging comparative study reassesses the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within its transamerican and multilingual contexts. Anna Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent from Latin American and Caribbean literatures that shaped this most formative period of literary production in the United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-393) and index
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Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Comparative literature -- American and Latin American
Comparative literature -- Latin American and American
American literature -- Appreciation -- Latin America
American literature -- Appreciation -- West Indies
American literature -- Latin American influences
American literature -- West Indian influences
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature.
American literature -- Appreciation.
American literature -- Latin American influences.
Intellectual life.
Literaturbeziehungen
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074909
Subject Caribbean Area.
Latin America.
West Indies.
Lateinamerika
Karibik
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004045192
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