Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest

ISBN-13: 9780748638680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 264 str.

Rebecca Cole Heinowitz

Opis

Robert Southey did not exaggerate when he described the England of his day as "South American mad." As Spain's hold on its colonies progressively weakened during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, thousands of British scientists, soldiers, entrepreneurs, and settlers rushed to take advantage of the enticing opportunities Spanish America offered. Britain's fascination with the region displayed itself in poems, plays, operas, political tracts, news reportage, travel narratives, and stock market quotations. Creole patriots such as Francisco de Miranda and Andres Bello gathered in London to solicit aid for their revolutions while ministers debated tactics for liberating both the peoples and the untapped wealth of Spain's colonies.Through critical reconsiderations of both canonical and lesser-known Romantic texts, from Helen Maria Williams's Peru to Samuel Rogers's The Voyage of Columbus and Byron's The Age of Bronze, Heinowitz reveals the untold story of Romantic-era Britain's Spanish A
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Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: "An Empire in Men's Hearts:" The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America; 1. Naturalizing Empire: Helen Maria Williams's Peru and the British Ascendancy in Spanish America; 2. Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792-1799; 3. The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism; 4. "Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:" Visions of Spanish America During the Peninsular War; 5. Lord Byron's "South American Project:" Aristocratic Radicalism and the Question of Venezuelan Settlement; 6. The Spanish American Bubble and Britain's Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822-1826.