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Imagined Empires - Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876 (Paperback)
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Imagined Empires - Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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Imagined Empires, first published in 1999, demonstrates that early
American culture, and in particular literature, took great interest
in South American civilisations, especially the Incas and Aztecs,
and in so doing made a statement about the role of the United
States as an empire in the emerging political order of New World
colonies and states. By examining the work of Philip Freneau, Joel
Barlow, William Prescott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman, the
long-contested concept of 'indigenous origins' is given expanded
meaning beyond traditional critiques of American culture. Eric
Wertheimer recovers the Incas and Aztecs in Anglo-American
literature, and thus sheds new light on national sovereignty,
identity and the development of an American history narrative.
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