TY - BOOK AU - Brickhouse, Anna PY - 2004 DA - 2004// TI - Transamerican literary relations and nineteenth-century public sphere T3 - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 145 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge KW - Comparative literature KW - Latin American and American KW - American literature KW - Appreciation KW - Latin America KW - West Indies KW - Latin American influences KW - West Indian influences KW - American and Latin American KW - History and criticism KW - American literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism KW - Comparative literature ; American and Latin American KW - Comparative literature ; Latin American and American KW - American literature ; Appreciation ; Latin America KW - American literature ; Appreciation ; West Indies KW - American literature ; Latin American influences KW - American literature ; West Indian influences KW - Caribbean Area ; Intellectual life ; 19th century KW - Latin America ; Intellectual life ; 19th century KW - Caribbean Area KW - Intellectual life AB - 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 SN - 9780511485701 UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485701 DO - 10.1017/CBO9780511485701 LA - English N1 - by Anna Brickhouse ID - 883368331 ER -