Rebecca Cole Heinowitz is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College.

Her [Heinowitz's] study constitutes a significant hemispheric challenge to the northern bias of most previous work in transatlantic Romantic studies.

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: "An Empire in Men's Hearts:" The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America; 1. Naturalizing Empire: Helen Maria Williams's Peru and the British Ascendancy in Spanish America; 2. Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792-1799; 3. The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism; 4. "Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:" Visions of Spanish America During the Peninsular War; 5. Lord Byron's "South American Project:" Aristocratic Radicalism and the Question of Venezuelan Settlement; 6. The Spanish American Bubble and Britain's Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822-1826.

Rebecca Cole Heinowitz is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College.

Her [Heinowitz's] study constitutes a significant hemispheric challenge to the northern bias of most previous work in transatlantic Romantic studies.

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: "An Empire in Men's Hearts:" The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America; 1. Naturalizing Empire: Helen Maria Williams's Peru and the British Ascendancy in Spanish America; 2. Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792-1799; 3. The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism; 4. "Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:" Visions of Spanish America During the Peninsular War; 5. Lord Byron's "South American Project:" Aristocratic Radicalism and the Question of Venezuelan Settlement; 6. The Spanish American Bubble and Britain's Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822-1826.

Rebecca Cole Heinowitz is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College.

Her [Heinowitz's] study constitutes a significant hemispheric challenge to the northern bias of most previous work in transatlantic Romantic studies.

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: "An Empire in Men's Hearts:" The Liberal Conquest of Spanish America; 1. Naturalizing Empire: Helen Maria Williams's Peru and the British Ascendancy in Spanish America; 2. Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792-1799; 3. The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism; 4. "Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:" Visions of Spanish America During the Peninsular War; 5. Lord Byron's "South American Project:" Aristocratic Radicalism and the Question of Venezuelan Settlement; 6. The Spanish American Bubble and Britain's Crisis of Informal Empire, 1822-1826.