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"An empire in men's hearts": The figure of Spanish America in British and French romanticism (Peru).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"An empire in men's hearts": The figure of Spanish America in British and French romanticism (Peru)./
Author:	Heinowitz, Rebecca Cole.
Description:	263 p.
Notes:	Director: Nancy Armstrong.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3087273

"An empire in men's hearts": The figure of Spanish America in British and French romanticism (Peru).
Heinowitz, Rebecca Cole.

"An empire in men's hearts": The figure of Spanish America in British and French romanticism (Peru). - 263 p.

Director: Nancy Armstrong.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2003.

This dissertation traces the relations between British and French writing about Spanish America and the emergence of free trade imperialism during the Romantic Era. Eighteenth and early nineteenth-century writers on Spanish America convert the Native American “other” into a version of the domestic European “self” in order to rescript relations of imperial domination as voluntary, mutual, and benevolent. The thesis draws on epic and romance poems, novels, plays, periodical writings, histories, political statements, and travel writing to examine how images of Spanish Americans worked to build a nineteenth-century ideology of “good” imperialism that would expiate and replace the colonial and mercantile misdeeds of the eighteenth century. Chapter One, “Inkle and Yarico, <italic>Lettres d'une Péruvienne </italic>, and the Political Limits of Literary Sensibility,” addresses the early eighteenth-century suspicion of mercantilism and colonialism. Popular sentimental texts, such as Addison's tale of Inkle and Yarico and Graffigny's Lettres, condemn the violence and iniquity created by greed, and question whether justice can be brought about by individual morality. Chapter Two, “‘An Empire in Men's Hearts:’ Commerce and the Making of Europe's Sentimental Conquest,” investigates how Marmontel's novel, <italic> Les Incas</italic>, and Williams's poem, <italic>Peru</italic>, initiate a concept of “good” imperialism as coterminous with northern European sensibility while purporting to critique imperialism. While the French novel rewrites free trade theory as an extension of Inca law in order to justify European imperialism, the English poem conceals the machinations of commerce, presenting British imperial ambitions as the workings of nature itself. Chapter Three, “Romantic Rebels or Responsible Colonialists? Chateaubriand and Southey—In Search of Lost Empires,” takes up the anti-commercial American colonial utopias envisioned by Chateaubriand and Southey. Appearing after the Warren Hastings trial and the French Revolution had cast a pall over liberalism, Southey and Chateaubriand's imagined communities attempt to resuscitate traditional colonialism by forming a single family of Native Americans and European colonialists. The Conclusion examines the role played by Spanish American revolutionaries in London and Paris during the Romantic Era in order to suggest that many familiarly European “romantic” tropes were appropriated from the independence struggles of Spain's colonies.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Comparative.

"An empire in men's hearts": The figure of Spanish America in British and French romanticism (Peru).
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