Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth-century United States

Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth-century United States
ISBN-10
0838638481
ISBN-13
9780838638484
Category
American literature
Pages
281
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Authors
Pere, Gifra-Adroher

Description

It demonstrates that, even though Washington Irving's sojourn in Spain from 1826 until 1829 marked a distinct shift in the literary commodification of things Spanish, the transition from an enlightened to a romantic representation of Spain was a process triggered by a group of writers who produced Spanish travel narratives of lasting influence.

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