The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880

by Iván Jaksic

Book Overview

This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispanic world. The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country's identity after independence and the War of 1812, a crucial time for the young republic, and that they found inspiration in a most unlikely place: the seat of the collapsing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023033749X
• ISBN13: 9780230337497
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"