Between History and Romance Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States |
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| Author:
| Gifra-Adroher, Pere |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61147-187-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2000 |
| Publisher: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $114.00 |
Book Description:
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Combining biographical data with recent theoretical studies on travel writing, Between History and Romance unravels the conventions, voices, discourses, and gender issues embedded in some American travel texts on Spain produced in the early nineteenth century and ascertains their cultural work in fostering a romantic representation of that country in the antebellum United States.
Combining biographical data with recent theoretical studies on travel writing, Between History and Romance unravels the conventions, voices, discourses, and gender issues embedded in some American travel texts on Spain produced in the early nineteenth century and ascertains their cultural work in fostering a romantic representation of that country in the antebellum United States.