Through critical reconsiderations of both canonical and lesser-known romantic texts, Rebecca Cole Heinowitz reveals the untold story of romantic-era Britain's Spanish American obsession An empire in men's hearts : the liberal conquest of South...
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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Through critical reconsiderations of both canonical and lesser-known romantic texts, Rebecca Cole Heinowitz reveals the untold story of romantic-era Britain's Spanish American obsession An empire in men's hearts : the liberal conquest of South America -- Naturalizing empire : Helen Maria Williams's Peru and the British ascendancy in Spanish America -- Creole patriotism and the discourse of revolutionary loyalism, 1792-9 -- The allure of the same : Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the rhetoric of good colonialism -- They world, Columbus, shall be free : visions of Spanish America during the Peninsular War -- Lord Byron's "South American project" : aristocratic radicalism and the question of Venezuelan settlement -- The Spanish American bubble and Britain's crisis of informal empire, 1822-6