Letters from Filadelfia : early Latino literature and the trans-American elite / Rodrigo Lazo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazo, Rodrigo, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--18th century--History and criticism.

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

Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life--18th century.

Hispanic Americans.

Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 287 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Letters from Filadelfia examines Spanish-language writing published in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century by exiles, travelers, and immigrants who sought to influence sociopolitical conditions throughout the Americas. These political tracts, economic treatises, histories, novels, and books of poetry would have been considered seditious in the colonial territories administered by Spain, and they circulated throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean, helping to inspire independence all over the region. Lazo shows how this most American of cities opened conversations about political organization and economic conditions that crossed from the English language to Spanish and back"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

La Famosa Filadelfia

The Trans-American Elite

Faith in Print

Anonymously Yours: Republican Man

Leaving Filadelfia, or Archival Dislocations.

Notes:

"Publication Date: February 2020" -- Accompanying press release.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lazo, Rodrigo, 1964- Letters from Filadelfia

ISBN:

9780813943541

081394354X

9780813943558

0813943558

OCLC:

1091587697