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Eclipse of empires

Roylance, Patricia Jane.

Eclipse of empires world history in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / [electronic resource] : Patricia Jane Roylance. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780817387037 081738703X


World history in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century


Electronic books.

PS217.I47 / R69 2013

810.9/358