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This book by examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how Prescott's histories inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith.

Hispanic-American literature has a venerable history, but it has never been more important and popular than it is now. Containing approximately 250 entries, Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature includes those authors and works that are an integral part of the high school and college iterary canon, as well as those that are historically significant or gaining a reputation in today's literary circles. Coverage includes Isabel Allende, Ju...

Examines British literary representations of Latin America from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with particular attention to travel writing and fiction published during and after Latin American independence. This work argues that British representations of Latin America reveal an authorial freedom to advance imperial and commercial projects.