Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain - Literature, Modernity, and the New World, 1773-1812

Building on recent transatlantic and postcolonial approaches to Spain's Enlightenment that have focused mostly on historiographical writings and official discourse, Writing the Americas shows how novels, plays, and short stories often incorporated the imagery of the Americas and the experiences of colonial rule.

List of contents

A Note on Translation
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Fiction of Fracture
Chapter 1: Culture, Criollos, and Indianos in Spanish Enlightenment Thought
Chapter 2: Lujo and Commerce in Cadalso's Cartas marruecas: Empire, Political Economy
Discourse, and the Enlightened Economic Periphery
Chapter 3: Atlantic Renewals: America, Europe, and the Modern Subject in Montengón's
Eusebio
Chapter 4: Blanco White's Conversaciones americanas: Republicanism and Hispanic Identity on
the Brink of Colonial Fragmentation
Conclusion Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Thomas Neal is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Akron.

Summary

Building on recent transatlantic and postcolonial approaches to Spain's Enlightenment that have focused mostly on historiographical writings and official discourse, Writing the Americas shows how novels, plays, and short stories often incorporated the imagery of the Americas and the experiences of colonial rule.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Neal, Thomas C Neal, Thomas C. Neal
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781611488302
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-830-2
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies