The last good land : Spain in American Literature Suárez-Galbán, E.

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The last good land : Spain in American Literature

Suárez-Galbán, E.

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Suárez-Galbán, E. (2005, November 29). The last good land : Spain in American Literature.

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The Last Good Land

Spain in American Literature

PROEFSCHRIFT

ter verkrijging van

de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden op gezag van de Rector M agnificus Dr. D.D. Breimer,

hoogleraar in de faculteit der W iskunde en Natuurwetenschappen en die der Geneeskunde, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties

te verdedigen op dinsdag 29 november 2005 klokke 16.15 uur

door

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Promotiecommissie

Promotor: Prof. Dr. T.L. D´haen

Referent: Prof Dr. J. Duytschaever, Antwerp University, Belgium Overige leden: Prof. Dr. L.M. L. Rodríguez Carranza

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 7

I. Spain and the United States Within the Western Tradition 13

II. Americans in Europe 31

III. Washington Irving’s The Alhambra: Beyond the Romance 41 IV. Longfellow: The Spanish Student or the “Typically Spanish” 55 V. From Romantic Idealization to Realistic Ambiguity,

or from the Civil War to the Cuban War 69 VI. W.D. Howells: the Future that Never Became a Present 93 VII. Santayana, or the Existential Confirmation of Stereotypes 111 VIII. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas: the Lost Generation

Rediscovers Spain 131

IX. John Dos Passos: Rosinante’s Winding Road to the Right 143 X. Virgin Spain: Jewish-American Travel Literature 165 XI. Hemingway: Stories of the Last Good Land 189 XII. Hemingway: Literature and Politics

(Stories of the Spanish Civil War) 225 XIII. Two Women at War: Lillian Hellman and Josephine Herbst 265 XIV. Spain is Beautiful: Claude McKay and Langston Hughes

Dream Heaven 277

XV. Saul Bellow: “The Gonzaga Manuscripts:” Spain is Europe 295 XVI. Spain Within the Counterfeit Markets: William Gaddis’s The

Recognitions 321

XVII. Pagan Spain: Race and Religion in Richard Wright 333 XVIII. Nelson Algren’s Who Lost an American? 361 XIX. Chester Himes: at Home but Still Hurt 369 XX. Spain as Autobiography: Barbara Probst Solomon 381

Conclusion 397

Bibliography 423

Samenvatting 467

Summary 477

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