Lesley Wylie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3971060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Wylie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Wylie |
| SIGNATURE | WYLIE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plants in the Literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean
Plants have played a central role in cultural imaginaries across South and Central America and the Caribbean. This chapter, organised chronologically from the colonial period to the present, focuses on key literary traditions and/or works from Latin America and the Caribbean that engage directly with plants, including sugar cane, the ceiba pentandra , and rubber. The chapter includes discussion of a number of works in English, Portuguese, and Spa…
Introduction One Hundred Years of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies ( Bulletin of Hispanic Studies , 1949–2001) 1923–2023
In this 'Introduction: One Hundred Years of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1949–2001) 1923–2023', Sarah Wright and Lesley Wylie look back from the perspective of 2023 on some of the earliest volumes of the Bulletin, including the desire to promote the language and literature of Spain, and the literature and culture of Latin America, as subjects worthy of study in the UK and North America. They also provide a summar…
Floriography, Sexuality and the Horticulture of Hair in Jorge Isaacs’ María
Tapping into the Romantic predilection for nature, flower symbolism is widespread in Jorge Isaacs’s María (1867), set amid the lush Cauca Valley in a period before the abolition of slavery in Colombia. Flowers have been identified as encoding female eroticism in the novel, propelling the tragic love affair between the narrator and the eponymous heroine, who, as well as frequently being compared to flora, spends much of her time in her garden, col…
Surveying the American Tropics
Surveying the American Tropics
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Travel Writing and Atrocities
Travel Writing and Atrocities: Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo Robert M. Burroughs New York: Routledge, 2011 xiii + 209. ISBN 978-0-45-99238-1 (hb) This bo
Green mansions to green hell
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Putumayo, a disputed frontier region between Peru and Colombia, attracted a number of Colombian travellers. The resulting travel accounts, while contributing valuable topographical and ethnographic knowledge about this little-visited border zone, also revealed the position of the Putumayo as a space of projection for national desires and anxieties. This article will examine the accounts of …
Editing Eden
Frontier Fictions
Rare models
In 1910 Roger Casement was sent by the British government to investigate the alleged humanitarian abuses of the Peruvian Amazon Company in the Putumayo, a disputed border zone in North West Amazonia. Casement brought more than verbal and written testimony back to London. On 26 June, some six months after he returned from the Amazon, Casement collected two Amerindian boys - Omarino and Ricudo - from Southampton docks. This paper will reconstruct t…
Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
Scoping the Amazon
Rare models
In 1910 Roger Casement was sent by the British government to investigate the alleged humanitarian abuses of the Peruvian Amazon Company in the Putumayo, a disputed border zone in North West Amazonia. Casement brought more than verbal and written testimony back to London. On 26 June, some six months after he returned from the Amazon, Casement collected two Amerindian boys - Omarino and Ricudo - from Southampton docks. This paper will reconstruct t…
Floriography, Sexuality and the Horticulture of Hair in Jorge Isaacs’ María
Tapping into the Romantic predilection for nature, flower symbolism is widespread in Jorge Isaacs’s María (1867), set amid the lush Cauca Valley in a period before the abolition of slavery in Colombia. Flowers have been identified as encoding female eroticism in the novel, propelling the tragic love affair between the narrator and the eponymous heroine, who, as well as frequently being compared to flora, spends much of her time in her garden, col…
Scoping the Amazon
Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
Green mansions to green hell
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Putumayo, a disputed frontier region between Peru and Colombia, attracted a number of Colombian travellers. The resulting travel accounts, while contributing valuable topographical and ethnographic knowledge about this little-visited border zone, also revealed the position of the Putumayo as a space of projection for national desires and anxieties. This article will examine the accounts of …
Editing Eden
Frontier Fictions
Rare models
In 1910 Roger Casement was sent by the British government to investigate the alleged humanitarian abuses of the Peruvian Amazon Company in the Putumayo, a disputed border zone in North West Amazonia. Casement brought more than verbal and written testimony back to London. On 26 June, some six months after he returned from the Amazon, Casement collected two Amerindian boys - Omarino and Ricudo - from Southampton docks. This paper will reconstruct t…
Travel Writing and Atrocities
Travel Writing and Atrocities: Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo Robert M. Burroughs New York: Routledge, 2011 xiii + 209. ISBN 978-0-45-99238-1 (hb) This bo
Surveying the American Tropics
Surveying the American Tropics
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Floriography, Sexuality and the Horticulture of Hair in Jorge Isaacs’ María
Tapping into the Romantic predilection for nature, flower symbolism is widespread in Jorge Isaacs’s María (1867), set amid the lush Cauca Valley in a period before the abolition of slavery in Colombia. Flowers have been identified as encoding female eroticism in the novel, propelling the tragic love affair between the narrator and the eponymous heroine, who, as well as frequently being compared to flora, spends much of her time in her garden, col…
Introduction One Hundred Years of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies ( Bulletin of Hispanic Studies , 1949–2001) 1923–2023
In this 'Introduction: One Hundred Years of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1949–2001) 1923–2023', Sarah Wright and Lesley Wylie look back from the perspective of 2023 on some of the earliest volumes of the Bulletin, including the desire to promote the language and literature of Spain, and the literature and culture of Latin America, as subjects worthy of study in the UK and North America. They also provide a summar…
Plants in the Literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean
Plants have played a central role in cultural imaginaries across South and Central America and the Caribbean. This chapter, organised chronologically from the colonial period to the present, focuses on key literary traditions and/or works from Latin America and the Caribbean that engage directly with plants, including sugar cane, the ceiba pentandra , and rubber. The chapter includes discussion of a number of works in English, Portuguese, and Spa…
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