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

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"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 examp...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Briggs, Ronald, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2017]
Temas:
1800-1899
Peruvian literature > Peru > Lima.
Peruvian literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
Peruvian literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Salons > Peru > Lima.
Literature and society > Peru > 19th century.
Educational change > Peru > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > Peru > History > 19th century.
Littérature péruvienne > Pérou > Lima.
Littérature péruvienne > Histoire et critique > 19e siècle.
Salons littéraires > Pérou > Lima.
Littérature et société > Pérou > 19e siècle.
Enseignement > Réforme > Pérou > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes et littérature > Pérou > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
EDUCATION > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Educational change.
Intellectual life.
Literature and society.
Peruvian literature.
Peruvian literature > Women authors.
Salons.
Women and literature.
Lima (Peru) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Peru.
Peru > Lima.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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."--
"Ties the vocabulary of educational reform to the development of the social novel in Lima in the late nineteenth century"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780826521477
0826521479

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