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  1. Conquest and reclamation in the transatlantic imagination
    the Amerindian adventures of Henty, Haggard, and Griffith
    Author: Ramirez, Luz Elena
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This monograph examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how Prescott's histories inspired fictional... more

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    "This monograph examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how Prescott's histories inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith. The revision of history in the Amerindian adventure, entertained young transatlantic audiences, was a vehicle to attract tourism and investment in countries such as Mexico and Peru, and a way to impart British values. Such values compel the characters and narrators of novels discussed to act as cultural mediators, to acquire indigenous languages and adopt native ways of being, and, in several of the romances under consideration, to marry Mexican or Incan noblewomen. Part I, Conquest, examines George Henty's By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexico (1891), Rider Haggard's Montezuma's Daughter (1893) and George Griffith's Virgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru (1898). Part II, Reclamation, argues that English re-writings of history work to eclipse the Spanish in Haggard's Virgin of the Sun (1922), Henty's Treasure of the Incas (1902) and Griffith's Romance of Golden Star (1897)"--...

     
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  2. Conquest and reclamation in the Transatlantic imagination
    the Amerindian fictions of Henty, Haggard, and Griffith
    Author: León Ramírez, Luz Elena
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    This book by examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how Prescott s histories inspired fictional adaptations... more

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    This book by examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how Prescott s histories inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032260044; 9781032440101
    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Subjects: Colonialism & imperialism; Ethnic Studies; Ethnic studies; HIS015060; HISTORY / Latin America / General; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus; LIT025010; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900; POL045000; Sociology; Soziologie
    Scope: xi, 223 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Conquest1. The Rewards of Adventure in Henty s By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexico (1891)2. Haggard s Montezuma s Daughter (1893) as a Memoir of the Spanish Conquest3. I Was There : George Griffith s Trek on the Inca Trail and Virgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru (1898)Part II: Reclamation4. Eclipsing the Spanish in Haggard s Virgin of the Sun (1922)5. The Rewards of Speculation and the Promise of Development in Henty s Treasure of the Incas (1902) 6. The Campaign of Reclamation in George Griffith s Romance of Golden Star (1897) Epilogue: Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination: The Amerindian Fictions of Henty, Haggard, and GriffithIndex