ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary volume that brings together an international team of contributors to provide a unique transnational overview of the Hispanic Enlightenment, integrating both Spain and Latin America.
Challenging the usual conceptions of the Enlightenment in Spain and Latin America as mere stepsisters to Enlightenments in other countries, the Companion explores the existence of a distinctive Hispanic Enlightenment.
The interdisciplinary approach makes it an invaluable resource for students of Hispanic studies and researchers unfamiliar with the Hispanic Enlightenment, introducing them to the varied aspects of this rich cultural period including the literature, visual art, and social and cultural history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
A world of ideas
chapter 3|13 pages
The georacial past in the New World present
chapter 6|14 pages
Contesting the grounds for feminism in the Hispanic eighteenth century
chapter 7|14 pages
Doubting the lettered city
part II|2 pages
Reforming the public and private
chapter 9|14 pages
Women as public intellectuals during the Hispanic Enlightenment
chapter 11|15 pages
Negotiating subjectivities on the fringes of the empire
chapter 13|15 pages
Enlightenment thinking, court sociability, and visual culture
chapter 14|16 pages
“Open the door so that misery may leave”
part III|2 pages
Interactions, exchanges, and circulations
chapter 20|15 pages
“Todos los progresos que ha hecho el entendimiento humano”
chapter 22|13 pages
Poverty, punishment, and the Enlightenment in the Spanish empire
part IV|2 pages
Control and subversion