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Sifilografia : a history of the writerly pox in the eighteenth-century Hispanic world /
A cultural history of syphilis, its spread to the New World, and its use as political propaganda in the trans-Atlantic, Hispanic world of the long 19th century.Syphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas' colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the peri...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Writing the early Americas.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: In the Beginning, It Was Not Syphilis; 1: This Book Is (the Back of) a Tapestry; 2: A Mysterious Disease Changes the Political Map of the World; 3: Judging Books by Their Covers; 4: The Awakening of Reason Produces Befuddlement; 5: Inhospitable Hospitals; 6: The Transformation of the Medical Understanding of Gálico; 7: Naming the Disease: The French Malady; 8: Naming the Disease: Mal americano; 9: The Rejection of the Origin of Gálico as a Nucleus of Self-Identity in the Spanish Colonies
- 10: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi's Diseased Characters11: Sick Humor; 12: Moratín's Arte de las putas, or the Distorted Art of Avoiding Gálico; 13: An Epic Chant to the Syphilitic Bubo; 14: Samaniego's Sticky Fable; 15: Gálico, Prostitution, and Public Policy; 16: The Future in Jeopardy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Series: Writing the Early Americas