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1 online resource (xvi, 276 pages) : illustrations, digital ; 24 cm |
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Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine |
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Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
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1 Travels and Observation: An Introduction -- 2 Humboldt's Cosmography -- 3 Fanny Calderon de la Barca: The Power and Privilege of Observation -- 4 Elizabeth Cary Agassiz: the Art of Scientific Observation -- 5 Conclusions |
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This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderon de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Inspired by the writings of Alexander von Humboldt these women, in their travels, expand his views on the tropics to include a social dimension to their observations on nature, culture, race, and progress in Brazil and Mexico. Highlighting the role of women as a new kind of observer as well as the complexity of connections between the United States and Latin America, Gerassi-Navarro interweaves science, politics, and aesthetics in new transnational frameworks |
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Springer eBooks
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Calderon de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis), 1804?-1882. Life in Mexico
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Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. Journey in Brazil
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Travelers' writings -- Women authors
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Latin America -- Description and travel
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Literature
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Nineteenth-Century Literature
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North American Literature
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Postcolonial/World Literature
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Latin American History
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Women's Studies
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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