Spain, the United States, and transatlantic literary culture throughout the Nineteenth Century / edited by John C. Havard and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso,

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John C. Havard is Professor of early American literature at Kennesaw State University. His research focuses on hemispheric studies and religious studies. His book Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2018. Ricardo Miguel- Alfonso is Associate Professor of American Studies and Literary Theory at the University of Castilla- La Mancha, Spain. He is the author of La idea rom ©Ł ntica de la literatura en Estados Unidos (American Romanticism and the Idea of Literature , Verbum, 2018), and he recently coedited with David LaRocca A Power to Translate the World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture (Dartmouth, 2015). He has written journal essays and book chapters on figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Coover, Eliza Haywood, Lydia Sigourney, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He has also translated into Spanish Ralph Waldo Emerson⁰́₉s Essays (2001) and George Santayana⁰́₉s Reason in Art (2008), among others. He is currently at work on a book manuscript on Emerson⁰́₉s career as the American symbol of modern disenchantment.

The relationship between the United States and Spain evolved rapidly over the course of the nineteenth century, culminating in hostility during the Spanish⁰́₃American War. However, scholarship on literary connections between the two nations has been limited aside from a few studies of the small coterie of Hispanists typically conceived as the canon in this area. This volume collects essays that push the study of transatlantic connections between U.S. and Spanish literatures in new directions. The contributors represent an interdisciplinary group including scholars of national literatures, national histories, and comparative literature. Their works explore previously understudied authors as well as understudied works by better-known authors. They use these new archives to present canonical works in new lights. Moreover, they explore organic entanglements between the literary traditions, and how thoseraditions interface with Latinx literary history.

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1 IntroductionJohn C. Havard and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso2 Spain and Washington Irving's Global AmericaJeffrey Scraba3 Moriscos and Mormons: Captivity Literature on the Spanish and American FrontiersElizabeth Terry-Roisin and Randi Lynn Tanglen4 The Writings of U.S. Hispanists and the Malleability of the American Empire's Spanish Past Gregg French5 Sketches of Spain: The Traveling Fictions of Frances Calderon de la Barca's The Attache in MadridNick Spengler6 Benito Cereno, Spaniards, and CreolesJohn C. Havard7 Inspiration or Coincidence? Guadalupe Gutierrez and Maria Berta Quintero y Escudero's Espinas y rosas as Discursive DoublesVanessa Ovalle Perez8 Spain, U.S. Whiteness Studies, and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Lost CauseMelanie Hernandez9 Future and Past in Nilo Maria Fabra's Science Fiction Stories on Spain vs the United States Juan Herrero-Sens10 George Santayana's Transatlantic Literary Criticism and the Potencies of Aesthetic JudgmentDavid LaRocca

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