Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction to Volume 1
- 1 A brief history of the history of Spanish American Literature
- 2 Cultures in contact: Mesoamerica, the Andes, and the European written tradition
- 3 The first fifty years of Hispanic New World historiography: the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America
- 4 Historians of the conquest and colonization of the New World: 1550–1620
- 5 Historians of the colonial period: 1620–1700
- 6 Colonial lyric
- 7 Epic poetry
- 8 Spanish American theatre of the colonial period
- 9 Viceregal culture
- 10 The eighteenth century: narrative forms, scholarship, and learning
- 11 Lyric poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- 12 Spanish American theatre of the eighteenth century
- 13 The nineteenth-century Spanish American novel
- 14 The brief narrative in Spanish America: 1835–1915
- 15 The Spanish American theatre of the nineteenth century
- 16 The essay in Spanish South America: 1800 to Modernismo
- 17 The essay of nineteenth-century Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
- 18 The gaucho genre
- Index
- Bibliographies
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- Introduction to Volume 1
- 1 A brief history of the history of Spanish American Literature
- 2 Cultures in contact: Mesoamerica, the Andes, and the European written tradition
- 3 The first fifty years of Hispanic New World historiography: the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America
- 4 Historians of the conquest and colonization of the New World: 1550–1620
- 5 Historians of the colonial period: 1620–1700
- 6 Colonial lyric
- 7 Epic poetry
- 8 Spanish American theatre of the colonial period
- 9 Viceregal culture
- 10 The eighteenth century: narrative forms, scholarship, and learning
- 11 Lyric poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- 12 Spanish American theatre of the eighteenth century
- 13 The nineteenth-century Spanish American novel
- 14 The brief narrative in Spanish America: 1835–1915
- 15 The Spanish American theatre of the nineteenth century
- 16 The essay in Spanish South America: 1800 to Modernismo
- 17 The essay of nineteenth-century Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
- 18 The gaucho genre
- Index
- Bibliographies
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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature , pp. i - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996