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- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetics of Disorder
- Part II Affective Communities
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Chapter 20 Women’s Travel Writing
- Chapter 21 Hydraulic Modernity
- Chapter 22 History and the Transatlantic Imagination
- Chapter 23 Humboldt’s Aesthetic Populations
- Chapter 24 Argentine Darwinists
- Index
- References
Chapter 22 - History and the Transatlantic Imagination
from Part IV - Transoceanic Consciousness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2023
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetics of Disorder
- Part II Affective Communities
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Chapter 20 Women’s Travel Writing
- Chapter 21 Hydraulic Modernity
- Chapter 22 History and the Transatlantic Imagination
- Chapter 23 Humboldt’s Aesthetic Populations
- Chapter 24 Argentine Darwinists
- Index
- References
Summary
Robert Southey was a British Poet Laureate, a Romantic Lake Poet (along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge), and one of the major transatlantic Hispanists of his generation. He worked across all genres: epic poetry, shorter odes, literary translations, the periodical press, children’s tales, and he left a prolific correspondence.
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- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870 , pp. 344 - 358Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022