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Analyses the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls "narratives of imperial eclipse”, texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilisation by another. Roylance's central claim in Eclipse of Empires is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse heightened the concerns of many American writers about specific intranational social problems plaguing the nation at the time.

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Analyses the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls "narratives of imperial eclipse”, texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilisation by another. Roylance's central claim in Eclipse of Empires is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse heightened the concerns of many American writers about specific intranational social problems plaguing the nation at the time.
Autorenporträt
Patricia Jane Roylance is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University.