The forms of informal empire : Britain, Latin America, and nineteenth-century literature / Jessie Reeder.

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Reeder, Jessie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020Description: x, 277 pagesISBN:

9781421438061
9781421438078

Other title:

Britain, Latin America, and nineteenth-century literature

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DDC classification:

820.93588 REE

Contents:

Introduction. Freedom and Empire in the Nineteenth Century -- Part I. Progress and Informal Empire, 1808-1875: Sequence, Protagonist, Paradox. Chapter 1: (In)dependence: Simón Bolívar and Revolutionary Forms of Progress. Chapter 2: "Dependant Kings": Anna Barbauld and a Paradox Deterred. Chapter 3: The Collapse of Historical Telos: Anthony Trollope and Victorian Informal Empire -- Part II: Family and Informal Empire, 1840-1926: Origin, Relation, Hybridity. Chapter 4: Re-membering the Nation: Vicente López and the Consolidation of Informal Empire. Chapter 5: The Antagonism of Valid Fiancées: H. Rider Haggard and Informal Empire at the Fin de Siècle. Chapter 6: Where Progress and Family (Fail to) Meet: William Henry Hudson and the Industrialization of the PampasCoda.

Summary: "This is a work of comparative literary study that examines the influence of Great Britain's informal empire in Latin America that followed Spain's relinquishment of its New World formal empire. The author finds effects of informal empire (involving maritime trade and markets primarily) in the literary forms of novels, poems, and letters. Britain's informal empire in Latin America lasted from the early nineteenth century until the 1920s"--

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.

"This is a work of comparative literary study that examines the influence of Great Britain's informal empire in Latin America that followed Spain's relinquishment of its New World formal empire. The author finds effects of informal empire (involving maritime trade and markets primarily) in the literary forms of novels, poems, and letters. Britain's informal empire in Latin America lasted from the early nineteenth century until the 1920s"--

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