@Book{883368331,
author="Brickhouse, Anna",
title="Transamerican literary relations and nineteenth-century public sphere",
series="Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 145",
year="2004",
publisher="Cambridge University Press",
address="Cambridge",
keywords="Comparative literature; Latin American and American; American literature; Appreciation; Latin America; West Indies; Latin American influences; West Indian influences; American and Latin American; History and criticism; American literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism; Comparative literature ; American and Latin American; Comparative literature ; Latin American and American; American literature ; Appreciation ; Latin America; American literature ; Appreciation ; West Indies; American literature ; Latin American influences; American literature ; West Indian influences; Caribbean Area ; Intellectual life ; 19th century; Latin America ; Intellectual life ; 19th century; Caribbean Area; Intellectual life",
abstract="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 investigates interactions between US, Latin American and Caribbean literatures. Her many examples and case studies include the Mexican genealogies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the rewriting of Uncle Tom's Cabin by a Haitian dramatist, and a French Caribbean translation of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley. Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent linking Philadelphia and Havana, Port-au-Prince and Boston, Paris and New Orleans. She argues for a new understanding of this most formative period of literary production in the United States as a 'transamerican renaissance', a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange",
note="by Anna Brickhouse",
note="Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)",
isbn="9780511485701",
doi="10.1017/CBO9780511485701",
url="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485701",
language="English"
}