Results for "Havard, John"

Mary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, imagining a world where newly-forged communities and reverence for nature rises from the ashes of a pandemic-ravaged society, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, with a foreword by Rebecca S... Read More about The Last Man

Disaffected Parties reveals how alienation from politics effected crucial changes to the shape and status of literary form. Recovering the earliest expressions of grumbling, irritability, and cynicism towards politics, this study asks how unsettled partisan legacies converged with more recent discon... Read More about Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830

The relationship between the United States and Spain evolved rapidly over the course of the nineteenth century, culminating in hostility during the Spanish-American War. However, scholarship on literary connections between the two nations has been limited aside from a few studies of the small coteri... Read More about Spain, the United States, and Transatlantic Literary Culture throughout the Nineteenth Century (Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature)

Well-researched analysis of the impact that Spain and Spanish America had on antebellum literature in the United States.   In Hispanicism and Early US Literature, author John C. Havard posits that representations of Spain, Spanish America, Spanishness, and Spanish Americanness are integral elem... Read More about Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity

This volume collects essays that push the study of transatlantic connections between nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish literature past the boundaries of the small coterie of Hispanists typically conceived as the canon in this area of study... Read More about Spain, the United States, and Transatlantic Literary Culture throughout the Nineteenth Century (Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature)