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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Briggs, Ronald (1975-....)
Titre(s) : The moral electricity of print [Texte imprimé] : transatlantic education and the Lima women's circuit, 1876-1910 / Ronald Briggs
Publication : Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt university press, 2017
Description matérielle : ix, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-246) and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Littérature péruvienne -- Femmes écrivains
Salons littéraires -- Lima (Pérou) -- 1870-1914
Genre ou forme : Littérature péruvienne -- Lima (Pérou) -- 1870-1914
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780826521453. - ISBN 0826521452. - ISBN 9780826521477 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45550031b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45550031
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : aesthetics of the cosmopolitan teacher ; Independence and the book
in subjunctive ; Exemplary autodidacts ; Collective feminist biography ; Novelistic
education, or, the making or the Pan-American reader ; Educational aesthetics and
the social novel ; Conclusion : publication as mission and identity
