Hispanicism and early US literature : Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the origins of US national identity / by Havard, John C.

Table of Contents: “…Joel Barlow's The vision of Columbus and the Columbiad: US national identity and Spain -- James Fenimore Cooper's Mercedes of Castile and Jack Tier: realism and hispanicism -- Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" as critique of hispanicist exceptionalism: cosmopolitanism and ironizing identity -- Mary Peabody Mann's Juanita: Cuba and US national identity -- Jose Antonio Saco's antiannexationist essays: Cuba, hispanicism, and national identity -- Epilogue: The hispanicist forebears of 1898.…”

Hispanicism and early US literature : Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the origins of US national identity / by Havard, John C.

Table of Contents: “…Joel Barlow's The vision of Columbus and the Columbiad: US national identity and Spain -- James Fenimore Cooper's Mercedes of Castile and Jack Tier: realism and hispanicism -- Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" as critique of hispanicist exceptionalism: cosmopolitanism and ironizing identity -- Mary Peabody Mann's Juanita: Cuba and US national identity -- Jose Antonio Saco's antiannexationist essays: Cuba, hispanicism, and national identity -- Epilogue: The hispanicist forebears of 1898.…”
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Spain, the United States, and transatlantic literary culture throughout the nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Hispanists and the malleability of the American empire's Spanish past / Gregg French -- Sketches of Spain : the traveling fictions of Frances Calderón de la Barca's The attaché in Madrid / Nick Spengler -- "Benito Cereno," Spaniards, and Creoles / John C. Havard -- Inspiration or coincidence? …”