The moral electricity of print : transatlantic education and the Lima women's circuit, 1876-1910 / Ronald Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Ronald, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peruvian literature--Peru--Lima.

Peruvian literature.

Peruvian literature--History and criticism--19th century.

Peruvian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Salons--Peru--Lima.

Salons.

Literature and society--Peru--19th century.

Literature and society.

Educational change--Peru--History--19th century.

Educational change.

Women and literature--Peru--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Lima (Peru)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Lima (Peru).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Ties the vocabulary of educational reform to the development of the social novel in Lima in the late nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

"Moral electricity--a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept wasn't strictly an American idea, of course, and Ronald Briggs introduces us to one of the greatest examples of this power: the literary scene in Lima, Peru, in the nineteenth century. As Briggs notes in the introduction to The Moral Electricity of Print, "the ideological glue that holds the American hemisphere together is a hope for the New World as a grand educational project combined with an anxiety about the baleful influence of a politically and morally decadent Old World that dominated literary output through its powerful publishing interests." The very nature of living as a writer and participating in the literary salons of Lima was, by definition, a revolutionary act that gave voice to the formerly colonized and now liberated people. In the actions of this literary community, as men and women worked toward the same educational goals, we see the birth of a truly independent Latin American literature."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Aesthetics of the Cosmopolitan Teacher

1. Independence and the Book in Subjunctive

2. Exemplary Autodidacts

3. Collective Feminist Biography

4. Novelistic Education, or, The Making of the Pan-American Reader

5. Educational Aesthetics and the Social Novel

Conclusion: Publication as Mission and Identity

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826503954

0826503950

9780826521477

0826521479

OCLC:

993254621