Description: Arguing for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within transamerican and multilingual contexts, Anna Brickhouse examines a broad array of texts in English, French, and Spanish. She discovers literary influences from Latin American and Caribbean American literatures which made the period a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange.
Brief description: Anna Brickhouse is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Review Quotes: "...Brickhouse demonstrates specific, well-researched, and carefully reasoned instances of transnational literary influence and convincingly situates the American Renaissance within a much broader, trans-American field of study." CHOICE May 2005