Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere [Hardcover]

Anna Brickhouse uncovers interactions between United States, Latin American and Caribbean literatures in the nineteenth century.This wide-ranging comparative study argues for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within the transamerican and multilingual contexts that shaped it. Drawing on an array of texts in English, French, and Spanish by both canonical and neglected writers and activists, Anna Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent from Latin American and Caribbean American literatures, which made this most formative period of literary production in the United States a truly 'transamerican renaissance', a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange.This wide-ranging comparative study argues for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within the transamerican and multilingual contexts that shaped it. Drawing on an array of texts in English, French, and Spanish by both canonical and neglected writers and activists, Anna Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent from Latin American and Caribbean American literatures, which made this most formative period of literary production in the United States a truly 'transamerican renaissance', a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange.Arguing for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within transamerican and multilingual contexts, Anna Brickhouse examines a broad array of texts in English, French, and Spanish. She discovers literary influences from Latin American and Caribbean American literatures which made the period a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange.Acknowledgements; Note on texts and translations; Prologue; 1. Introduction: transamerican renaissance; 2. Scattered traditions: the transamerican genealogies of Jicot?ncal;l³»