Hemispheric Imaginings : The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire PDF
by Murphy Gretchen Murphy
Part of the New Americanists series
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Murphy juxtaposes close readings of novels with analyses of nonfiction texts. From uncovering the literary inspirations for the Monroe Doctrine itself to tracing visions of hemispheric unity and transatlantic separation in novels by Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Lew Wallace, and Richard Harding Davis, she reveals the Doctrine's forgotten cultural history. In making a vital contribution to the effort to move American Studies beyond its limited focus on the United States, Murphy questions recent proposals to reframe the discipline in hemispheric terms. She warns that to do so risks replicating the Monroe Doctrine's proprietary claim to isolate the Americas from the rest of the world.
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- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:05/04/2005
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- ISBN:9780822386728
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:05/04/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822386728