Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination

Luz Elena Ramirez completed her undergraduate degree at Newcomb College, Tulane University in New Orleans and her PhD in English literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, Ramirez locates her scholarship at the intersection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature, transatlantic studies, and archaeological fiction. She published British Representations of Latin America (2007), and subsequently edited the Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature (2008). More recently, she has written scholarly critiques of British fantasy writers George Griffith, William Hope Hodgson, and Bram Stoker, delving deeply into archaeological fiction with the chapter essay entitled, ‘The Intelligibility of the Past in Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars' in Eleanor Dobson’s edited volume, Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt (2020).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Conquest1. The Rewards of Adventure in Henty’s By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexico (1891)2. Haggard’s Montezuma’s Daughter (1893) as a Memoir of the Spanish Conquest3. ‘I Was There’: George Griffith’s Trek on the Inca Trail and Virgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru (1898)Part II: Reclamation4. Eclipsing the Spanish in Haggard’s Virgin of the Sun (1922)5. The Rewards of Speculation and the Promise of Development in Henty’s Treasure of the Incas (1902) 6. The Campaign of Reclamation in George Griffith’s Romance of Golden Star (1897) Epilogue: Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination: The Amerindian Fictions of Henty, Haggard, and GriffithIndex