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Author Suarez-Galban, Eugenio

Title The Last Good Land : Spain in American Literature
Published Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (415 pages)
Series Costerus NS, 189
Costerus NS, 189
Contents Cover; Cover; Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Table of Contents; Preface; Preface; 1. Spain and the United States within the Western Tradition; 1. Spain and the United States within the Western Tradition; 2. The Pioneers: Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; 2. The Pioneers: Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; 3. From Romantic Idealization to Realistic Ambiguity, or from the Civil War to the Cuban War; 3. From Romantic Idealization to Realistic Ambiguity, or from the Civil War to the Cuban War
Summary Books studying the presence of Spain in American literature, and the possible influence of Spain and its literature on American authors, are still rare. In 1955 appeared a pioneer work in this field - Stanley T. Williams' The Spanish Background of American Literature . But that book went no further than W.D. Howells' Familiar Spanish Travels, published in 1913. The Last Good Land covers most of the twentieth century, including such groups as the Lost Generation and African American writers and exiles. It also considers then recent revolution in Spanish cultural and historical thought introduc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-405) and index
Notes English
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Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Spanish influences
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Spain
Americans -- Spain -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
American literature -- Spanish influences
Americans
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
Literature
SUBJECT Spain -- In literature
Subject Spain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789401200486
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