Imagined Empires : Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771–1876

Name: Imagined Empires
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521622295
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ISBN: 9780521622295

by Eric Wertheimer

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

ISBN-10 0521622298

ISBN-13 9780521622295

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 28th, 1998

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 528 grams

Dimensions 16.10 x 23.60 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: United States of America, USA South America 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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Imagined Empires investigates the interest early American culture, and especially literature, took in South American civilisations. By exploring the works of Philip Freneau, Joel Barlow, William Prescott, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman, this 1999 book sheds light on national sovereignty, identity, and the development of an American history narrative.

Imagined Empires, first published in 1999, demonstrates that early American culture, and in particular literature, took great interest in South American civilisations, especially the Incas and Aztecs, and in so doing made a statement about the role of the United States as an empire in the emerging political order of New World colonies and states. By examining the work of Philip Freneau, Joel Barlow, William Prescott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman, the long-contested concept of 'indigenous origins' is given expanded meaning beyond traditional critiques of American culture. Eric Wertheimer recovers the Incas and Aztecs in Anglo-American literature, and thus sheds new light on national sovereignty, identity and the development of an American history narrative.

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