World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
by
Patricia Jane Roylance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Eclipse of Empires analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls “narratives of imperial eclipse,” texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another.
Patricia Jane Roylance’s central claim in Eclipse of Empires is that...