By Anna Brickhouse
Arguing for a basic reassessment of the literary heritage of the nineteenth-century usa inside of transamerican and multilingual contexts, Anna Brickhouse examines a wide array of texts in English, French, and Spanish. She discovers literary affects from Latin American and Caribbean American literatures which made the interval a wealthy period of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural trade.
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