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Author Briggs, Ronald, 1975- author.

Title The moral electricity of print : transatlantic education and the Lima women's circuit, 1876-1910 / Ronald Briggs
Published Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Aesthetics of the Cosmopolitan Teacher -- 1. Independence and the Book in Subjunctive -- 2. Exemplary Autodidacts -- 3. Collective Feminist Biography -- 4. Novelistic Education, or, The Making of the Pan-American Reader -- 5. Educational Aesthetics and the Social Novel -- Conclusion: Publication as Mission and Identity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
"Ties the vocabulary of educational reform to the development of the social novel in Lima in the late nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
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
SUBJECT Lima (Peru) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject Peru
Peru -- Lima
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826521477
0826521479