{"product_id":"9781032260044-conquest-reclamation-in-the-transatlan","title":"Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Amerindian Fictions of Henty, Haggard, and Griffith. \u003cp\u003eThis book by examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Conquest of Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e (1843) and \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Conquest of Peru\u003c\/i\u003e (1847), and investigates how Prescott’s histories inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eThis book examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in William H. Prescott's \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Conquest of Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e (1843) and \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Conquest of Peru\u003c\/i\u003e (1847), and investigates how these accounts inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith. The revision of history in the Amerindian adventure both entertained young transatlantic audiences and was a vehicle to attract tourism and investment in countries such as Mexico and Peru. Henty, Haggard, and Griffith, moreover, used their tales of adventure as a platform to impart British values to their readers. Such values compel the characters and narrators of the novels discussed to act as cultural mediators, to acquire indigenous languages and adopt native ways of being, and, in several of the romance adventures under consideration, to marry Mexican or Incan noblewomen. Part I, Conquest, examines George Henty’s \u003ci\u003eBy Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e (1891), H. Rider Haggard’s \u003ci\u003eMontezuma’s Daughter \u003c\/i\u003e(1893), and George Griffith’s \u003ci\u003eVirgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru\u003c\/i\u003e (1898). Part II, Reclamation, argues that English re-writings of history work to eclipse the Spanish in Haggard’s \u003ci\u003eVirgin the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e (1922), Henty’s \u003ci\u003eTreasure of the Incas\u003c\/i\u003e (1902) and Griffith’s \u003ci\u003eRomance of Golden Star\u003c\/i\u003e (1897).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40911767961697,"sku":"9781032260044","price":159.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_14932129_jpg.jpg?v=1705029901","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032260044-conquest-reclamation-in-the-transatlan","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}