TY - BOOK AU - Gerassi-Navarro,Nina ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas: The Politics of Observation T2 - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine SN - 9783319615066 AV - PN760.5-769 U1 - 809.034 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Literature, Modern—19th century KW - America—Literatures KW - Literature    KW - Latin America—History KW - Women KW - Nineteenth-Century Literature KW - North American Literature KW - Postcolonial/World Literature KW - Latin American History KW - Women's Studies N1 - 1 Travels and Observation: An Introduction -- 2 Humboldt's Cosmography -- 3 Fanny Calderón de la Barca: The Power and Privilege of Observation -- 4 Elizabeth Cary Agassiz: the Art of Scientific Observation -- 5 Conclusions; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Inspired by the writings of Alexander von Humboldt these women, in their travels, expand his views on the tropics to include a social dimension to their observations on nature, culture, race, and progress in Brazil and Mexico. Highlighting the role of women as a new kind of observer as well as the complexity of connections between the United States and Latin America, Gerassi-Navarro interweaves science, politics, and aesthetics in new transnational frameworks UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61506-6 ER -