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

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

Wertheimer, Eric
Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 121

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521622298
ISBN13: 9780521622295
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 28 1998
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Imagined Empires demonstrates that early American culture took great interest in South American civilizations, 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.

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