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Spain, the United States, and
Transatlantic Literary Culture
throughout the Nineteenth Century
The relationship between the United States and Spain evolved rapidly
over the course of the nineteenth century, culminating in hostility during
the Spanish– American War. However, scholarship on literary connections
between the two nations has been limited aside from a few studies of
the small coterie of Hispanists typically conceived as the canon in this
area. This volume collects essays that push the study of transatlantic
connections between U.S. and Spanish literatures in new directions. The
contributors represent an interdisciplinary group including scholars of
national literatures, national histories, and comparative literature. Their
works explore previously understudied authors as well as understudied
works by better-k nown authors. They use these new archives to present
canonical works in new lights. Moreover, they explore organic entangle-
ments between the literary traditions, and how those traditions interface
with Latinx literary history.
John C. Havard is Professor of early American literature at Kennesaw
State University. His research focuses on hemispheric studies and reli-
gious studies. His book Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain,
Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity was published by
the University of Alabama Press in 2018.
Ricardo Miguel- Alfonso is Associate Professor of American Studies and
Literary Theory at the University of Castilla-L a Mancha, Spain. He
is the author of La idea romántica de la literatura en Estados Unidos
(American Romanticism and the Idea of Literature, Verbum, 2018),
and he recently coedited with David LaRocca A Power to Translate the
World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture (Dartmouth,
2015). He has written journal essays and book chapters on figures such as
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Coover, Eliza Haywood, Lydia Sigourney,
and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He has also translated into Spanish Ralph
Waldo Emerson’s Essays (2001) and George Santayana’s Reason in Art
(2008), among others. He is currently at work on a book manuscript on
Emerson’s career as the American symbol of modern disenchantment.
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Spain, the United States, and
Transatlantic Literary Culture
throughout the Nineteenth
Century
Edited by
John C. Havard and
Ricardo Miguel- Alfonso
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Contents
List of Contributors vii
1 Introduction 1
JOHN C. HAVARD AND RICARDO MIGUEL- ALFONSO
2 Spain and Washington Irving’s Global America 10
JEFFREY SCRABA
3 Moriscos and Mormons: Captivity Literature on the
Spanish and American Frontiers 29
ELIZABETH TERRY- ROISIN AND RANDI LYNN TANGLEN
4 The Writings of U.S. Hispanists and the Malleability
of the U.S. Empire’s Spanish Past 55
GREGG FRENCH
5 Sketches of Spain: The Traveling Fictions of Frances
Calderón de la Barca’s The Attaché in Madrid 79
NICHOLAS SPENGLER
6 “Benito Cereno,” Spaniards, and Creoles 96
JOHN C. HAVARD
7 Inspiration or Coincidence? Guadalupe Gutierrez and
María Berta Quintero y Escudero’s Espinas y rosas as
Discursive Doubles 111
VANESSA OVALLE PEREZ
8 Spain, U.S. Whiteness Studies, and María Amparo
Ruiz de Burton’s “Lost Cause” 132
MELANIE HERNÁNDEZ
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9 Future and Past in Nilo María Fabra’s Science Fiction
Stories on Spain versus the United States 159
JUAN HERRERO- SENÉS
10 George Santayana’s Transatlantic Literary Criticism
and the Potencies of Aesthetic Judgment 175
DAVID LAROCCA
Index 197
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Contributors
Gregg French is an assistant professor in the Department of History at
the University of Prince Edward Island. His research explores identity
formation and projections of power in colonial spaces. His current
book project examines how the relationships that developed between
representatives of the U.S. and Spanish empires influenced the
American imperial experience in North America, the Caribbean Basin,
and the Philippines.
John C. Havard is Professor of early American literature at Kennesaw
State University. His research focuses on hemispheric studies and reli-
gious studies. His book Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain,
Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity was published
by the University of Alabama Press in 2018.
Melanie Hernández is Associate Professor and Chair of the English
Department at Fresno State, where she teaches courses in U.S. litera-
ture and cultural production. She specializes in nineteenth-c entury U.S.
literature, with an emphasis on comparative African American and
Chicanx studies. She has held research fellowships at the American
Antiquarian Society and LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and
Collections at the University of Texas, Austin, and was a volunteer
composition instructor for University Beyond Bars, in collaboration
with the Washington State Reformatory and Shoreline Community
College. Prior to teaching, she worked in television and radio, including
the Oxygen network, ABC’s The View, radio station K- EARTH 101,
Saturday Night Live!, E! News Daily, The Howard Stern Show, and
Eyewitness News. She prefers teaching.
Juan Herrero- Senés is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of
Colorado Boulder. His main areas of research are early science fiction,
modernist intellectual networks, and the peninsular avant- garde.
His latest books are Mensajeros de un tiempo nuevo: modernidad y
nihilismo en la literatura de vanguardia (1918– 1936) (Anthropos,
2014) and Mundos al descubierto: Antología de ciencia ficción de la
Edad de Plata (1898– 1936) (Renacimiento, 2021). He has published
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critical editions of Benjamín Jarnés and Miguel de Unamuno, among
others, and articles in journals such as Anales de Literatura Española
Contemporánea, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Bulletin of Spanish
Studies, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispanic Review,
Studies in the Novel, and Hispanófila.
David LaRocca is the author, editor, or coeditor of a dozen books,
including Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of
Metaphor, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Transcendental Thought,
and Inheriting Stanley Cavell. His articles have appeared in journals
such as Afterimage, Conversations, Epoché, Estetica, Film and
Philosophy, Liminalities, The Midwest Quarterly, Nineteenth-
Century Prose, Post Script, The Senses and Society, Transactions of
the C.S. Peirce Society, The Journal of Religion and Business Ethics,
Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, The Journal of Aesthetic
Education, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Formerly
Harvard’s Sinclair Kennedy Fellow in the United Kingdom, and a par-
ticipant in an NEH Institute and the School of Criticism and Theory,
he has held visiting research and teaching positions at Binghamton,
Cornell, Cortland, Harvard, Ithaca College, the School of Visual Arts,
and Vanderbilt. Information about his work may be found at www.
DavidLaRocca.org.
Ricardo Miguel- Alfonso is Associate Professor of American Studies
and Literary Theory at the University of Castilla- La Mancha, Spain.
He is the author of La idea romántica de la literatura en Estados
Unidos (American Romanticism and the Idea of Literature, Verbum,
2018), and he recently coedited with David LaRocca A Power to
Translate the World: New Essays on Emerson and International
Culture (Dartmouth, 2015). He has written journal essays and book
chapters on figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Coover,
Eliza Haywood, Lydia Sigourney, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He has
also translated into Spanish Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays (2001)
and George Santayana’s Reason in Art (2008), among others. He is
currently at work on a book manuscript on Emerson’s career as the
American symbol of modern disenchantment.
Vanessa Ovalle Perez is an assistant professor of English at California
State University, San Bernardino. Currently, she is writing a book
exploring the social and poetic aspects of texts published by Latinas in
Spanish- language, California newspapers of the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Her writing has appeared in Letras Femeninas and
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-C entury Americanists, and her podcast
episode on Latina dedication poetry is available on the C19 Podcast.
Jeffrey Scraba is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
at the University of Memphis. He has published several other articles
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on Washington Irving, as well as articles on Walter Scott, Edgar Allan
Poe, Raymond Chandler, and the HBO series Deadwood.
Nicholas Spengler is currently Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in English
Literature at University College London. He holds a BA from Middlebury
College and an MA and PhD from the University of Edinburgh. His
first book, Melville’s Americas: Hemispheric Sympathies, Transatlantic
Contagion, is a study of Herman Melville’s literary representations of
and engagements with Spanish America, forthcoming from Edinburgh
University Press in 2022. He also has published articles in Leviathan:
A Journal of Melville Studies and Textual Practice.
Randi Lynn Tanglen is executive director of Humanities Montana and an
independent scholar based in Missoula, Montana. She was previously
professor of English and director of the Robert and Joyce Johnson
Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching at Austin
College in Texas. Her work has appeared in Western American
Literature and several edited volumes, and she is coeditor of Teaching
Western American Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2020).
The research for her coauthored article in this volume was made pos-
sible by a fellowship from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Elizabeth Terry- Roisin has a PhD in History from the University of
California- Berkeley and an AB in History from Dartmouth College.
She is currently Assistant Professor of History at Florida International
University and has also taught at Austin College. She is an historian
of early modern Europe and medieval Europe with an emphasis on
Spain, Italy, and the Mediterranean world. Her research in the cultural
and social history of Spain has focused on the Spanish Renaissance,
noble culture and chivalric culture, and the experiences of religious
minorities, such as the Moriscos. Her research has been supported by
a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society, and her
coauthored essay with scholar of Spanish literature Ignacio Navarrete,
“Nobles and Court Culture,” has appeared in Brill’s Companion to
the Spanish Renaissance (2019).
