Andrés Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

by Iván Jaksic

Book Overview

This is the first book-length biography of Andr s Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, to appear in English. Bello was also a poet, a literary critic, and an influential statesman whose contributions to nation-building and Spanish American identity are widely recognized across the region. This work provides a comprehensive interpretation of Bello's work, gives an account of Bello's life based on new information from archives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521027594
• ISBN13: 9780521027595
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"