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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation.
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Literary TheoryColonialismEdition Contents ListDecolonialityIllustrations Preface IntroductionEarly American LiteratureCultural StudiesAmerican LiteratureContact ZoneAmerican IdentityLatin American HistoryImperial EyesCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesLatin American CultureTransnational HistoryArt HistoryLiterary StudyPost-colonial CriticismVisual CultureLiterary HistoryHumanitiesTravel WritingModernity
1st edition contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone Part I Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 Science, planetary consciousness, interiors Narrating the anti-conquest Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity Eros and Abolition Part II The reinvention of America, 1800-50 Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America Reinventing America II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales Reinventing America/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning Part III Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980 From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador Notes Index