Beatriz Pastor Bodmer (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: Bodmer, Beatriz Pastor. “The Models in Crisis: The Search for El Dorado.” In The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589, translated by Lydia Longstreth Hunt pp. 153-68. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.
[In the following excerpt, Bodmer argues that belief in various myths about South America—including that of El Dorado—spurred the exploration of the interior of the continent.]
On the northern continent, territorial expansion had been...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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