From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Early American travel writers on Spain

This study maps out a discourse about Spain that, disseminated by travel writings, emerged and developed in the United States between the Revolutionary War and the first three decades of the nineteenth century. Specifically, it analyzes the shift from a politically-centered to a spiritually- or aesthetically-based perception of Spain whereby American readers ceased to envision that country as eerie and forbidding, and began to see it as almost other-worldly and seductive.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History, United States

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Gifra-Adroher, Pere

Contributors dc:contributor

• Baym, Nina

• History, United States
• Literature, American

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1995 Gifra-Adroher, Pere

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9522111
(UMI)AAI9522111

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23578