Title Sifilografia : a history of the writerly pox in the eighteenth-century Hispanic world / Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 398 pages) Series Writing the early Americas Writing the early Americas. 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 Summary 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 period's literature across numerous fields. Reflecting Spaniards' political prejudices of the period, it was alternately labeled "mal francés" or "el mal de las Indias."Sifilografía offers a cultural history that traces syphilis and its consequences in the transatlantic Spanish-speaking world throughout the long eighteenth century. Juan Carlos González Espitia charts interrelated literary, artistic, medical, and governmental discourses, exploring how fears of the disease and the search for its cure mobilized a transoceanic dialogue that forms an underside of Enlightenment narratives of progress.Through a narrative revealing the transformation and retooling of ideas related to syphilis as a bodily contagion, González Espitia demonstrates the Spanish-speaking world's crucial relevance to a global understanding of the period in the context of current reassessments of Enlightenment thought. Broad in its scope, the book incorporates an extensive corpus of medical treatises, literary essays, poems, novels, art, and governmental documents. The rich overlapping matrix of authors and texts broached subvert the idea of a homogeneous interpretation of syphilis and contributes to the rediscovery of the wide-ranging historical, cultural, and philosophical impact of this disease in the Spanish-speaking world.Sifilografía seeks to open a productive dialogue with other area studies about the disparate meanings of science and Enlightenment Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Print version record Subject Syphilis -- Spain -- History -- 18th century Medicine -- History -- 18th century. Syphilis -- history History, 18th Century HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Medicine Syphilis SUBJECT Spain https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013030 Subject Spain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019019194 ISBN 9780813943152 0813943159 9780813943169 0813943167

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