Imagined empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the new world of American literature, 1771-1876

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1999-06-01otherChoice Reviews Online99 citationsclosed

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Literature: history, themes, analysis Travel Writing and Literature American Literature and Culture

Abstract

Introduction: ancient America in the postcolonial national imaginary 1. Commencements: pre-Columbian worlds and Philip Freneau's literature of American empire 2. Diplomacy: Joel Barlow's scripting and subscripting of ancient America 3. Noctography: Prescott's sketchings of Aztecs and Incas 4. Mutations: Melville, representation, and South American history 5. Passage: two rivulets and the obscurity of American maps.

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