Form and reform in eighteenth-century Spain : utopian narratives and socio-political debate / Carla Almanza-Gálvez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almanza-Gálvez, Carla, author.

Series:

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 33.

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Utopias in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 218 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Legenda, an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2019.

Summary:

During the 'long' eighteenth century, marked by Spain's experience of the Enlightenment, five major utopian texts devised ideal worlds as vehicles for questioning the political, economic, social, and religious status quo. Linking these narratives to a European utopian tradition, stretching from Thomas More's Utopia (1516) to Jonathan Swift's take on the generic legacy in Gulliver's Travels (1726), the study examines not only their strikingly varied constructions of imaginary societies in a period characterized by reformist thinking, but also explores the foundations of Iberian utopianism in the social experiments carried out in the Spanish American colonies. Equally significantly, it demonstrates how in Spanish utopian thought the spirit of Enlightenment reformism interacted with the moral philosophy of Roman Catholicism. No earlier work has provided a full-length study of the evolution of eighteenth-century Spanish utopian literature, integrating a hitherto undervalued aspect of Hispanic culture into a Europe-wide, literary-political tradition.

Contents:

The literary and socio-political foundations of Spanish utopianism. Utopian fiction and the Morean model

Colonial utopianism and eighteenth century reformism

Characterizing the Spanish utopian tradition. Sinapia : a foundational Spanish utopia

Social satire and utopia in the Suplemento de los viajes de Enrique Wanton al país de las monas

Utopianism in the Monarquía de los Ayparchontes and related periodical texts of the 1780s

Anti-Enlightenment perspectives in the Monarquía columbina

Between utopia and reform : the educational and socio-economic vision of the 'Cartas de Mariano a Antonio' in El Evangelio en triunfo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index.

ISBN:

9781781885857

1781885850

OCLC:

1096241597