TY - GEN T1 - Letters from Filadelfia : early Latino literature and the trans-American elite T2 - Writing the early Americas. A1 - Lazo, Rodrigo LA - English PP - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1108815055 AB - "Letters from Filadelfia examines Spanish-language writing published in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century by exiles, travelers, and immigrants who sought to influence sociopolitical conditions throughout the Americas. These political tracts, economic treatises, histories, novels, and books of poetry would have been considered seditious in the colonial territories administered by Spain, and they circulated throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean, helping to inspire independence all over the region. Lazo shows how this most American of cities opened conversations about political organization and economic conditions that crossed from the English language to Spanish and back"-- OP - 287 CN - PQ7078.5.P45 L39 2020 SN - 9780813943565 SN - 0813943566 SN - 9780813943541 SN - 9780813943558 KW - Spanish literature : Pennsylvania : Philadelphia : History and criticism. KW - Spanish literature : 18th century : History and criticism. KW - Spanish literature : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Hispanic Americans : Intellectual life : 18th century. KW - Hispanic Americans : Intellectual life : 19th century. KW - Littérature espagnole : Pennsylvanie : Philadelphie : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature espagnole : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature espagnole : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General. KW - Intellectual life KW - Spanish literature KW - Pennsylvania : Philadelphia KW - 1700-1899 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -