Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777–1826 : Rewriting Conquest.

By: Heinowitz, Rebecca ColeMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic LiteraturesPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780748641611Subject(s): Colonies in literature | English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Latin America -- Foreign public opinion, British | Latin America -- In literature | Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777–1826 : Rewriting ConquestDDC classification: 820.9358809033 LOC classification: PR448.C64 -- H45 2010ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction 'AN EMPIRE IN MEN'S HEARTS:' THE LIBERAL CONQUEST OF SPANISH AMERICA -- CHAPTER ONE NATURALIZING EMPIRE: HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS'S PERU AND THE BRITISH ASCENDANCY IN SPANISH AMERICA -- CHAPTER TWO CREOLE PATRIOTISM AND THE DISCOURSE OF REVOLUTIONARY LOYALISM, 1792-9 -- CHAPTER THREE THE ALLURE OF THE SAME: ROBERT SOUTHEY'S WELSH INDIANS AND THE RHETORIC OF GOOD COLONIALISM -- CHAPTER FOUR 'THY WORLD, COLUMBUS, SHALL BE FREE:' VISIONS OF SPANISH AMERICA DURING THE PENINSULAR WAR -- CHAPTER FIVE LORD BYRON'S 'SOUTH AMERICAN PROJECT:' ARISTOCRATIC RADICALISM AND THE QUESTION OF VENEZUELAN SETTLEMENT -- CHAPTER SIX THE SPANISH AMERICAN BUBBLE AND BRITAIN'S CRISIS OF INFORMAL EMPIRE, 1822-6 -- Bibliography -- INDEX.
Summary: 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 Andrés 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 American obsession. Although historians have traditionally characterized Britain's relationship with Spanish America as commercial rather than colonial, this book explores the significant rhetorical overlap between formal and informal strategies of rule. In the absence of a coherent imperial policy regarding Spain's colonies, Britain struggled to justify its actions by means of the problematic assertion that British primacy was authorized by a political, cultural, ethical, and even historical identification with the peoples of Spanish America. By examining the ways in which this discourse of British-Spanish American similitude was deployed and increasingly strained throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Heinowitz demonstrates that British writing about Spanish America redefines the anxieties, ambivalences, and contradictionsSummary: that characterize Romantic Imperialism.
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Cover -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction 'AN EMPIRE IN MEN'S HEARTS:' THE LIBERAL CONQUEST OF SPANISH AMERICA -- CHAPTER ONE NATURALIZING EMPIRE: HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS'S PERU AND THE BRITISH ASCENDANCY IN SPANISH AMERICA -- CHAPTER TWO CREOLE PATRIOTISM AND THE DISCOURSE OF REVOLUTIONARY LOYALISM, 1792-9 -- CHAPTER THREE THE ALLURE OF THE SAME: ROBERT SOUTHEY'S WELSH INDIANS AND THE RHETORIC OF GOOD COLONIALISM -- CHAPTER FOUR 'THY WORLD, COLUMBUS, SHALL BE FREE:' VISIONS OF SPANISH AMERICA DURING THE PENINSULAR WAR -- CHAPTER FIVE LORD BYRON'S 'SOUTH AMERICAN PROJECT:' ARISTOCRATIC RADICALISM AND THE QUESTION OF VENEZUELAN SETTLEMENT -- CHAPTER SIX THE SPANISH AMERICAN BUBBLE AND BRITAIN'S CRISIS OF INFORMAL EMPIRE, 1822-6 -- Bibliography -- INDEX.

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 Andrés 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 American obsession. Although historians have traditionally characterized Britain's relationship with Spanish America as commercial rather than colonial, this book explores the significant rhetorical overlap between formal and informal strategies of rule. In the absence of a coherent imperial policy regarding Spain's colonies, Britain struggled to justify its actions by means of the problematic assertion that British primacy was authorized by a political, cultural, ethical, and even historical identification with the peoples of Spanish America. By examining the ways in which this discourse of British-Spanish American similitude was deployed and increasingly strained throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Heinowitz demonstrates that British writing about Spanish America redefines the anxieties, ambivalences, and contradictions

that characterize Romantic Imperialism.

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