During Mexico's first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its pre-Hispanic past. Finding the jungle-covered ruins of lost citi

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A wide-ranging account of the relationship between romance and history from the medieval to the early modern period.

The first closely historicized study of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic and Romantic literature.

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