ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary volume that brings together an international team of contributors to provide a unique transnational overview of the Hispanic Enlightenment, integrating both Spain and Latin America.

Challenging the usual conceptions of the Enlightenment in Spain and Latin America as mere stepsisters to Enlightenments in other countries, the Companion explores the existence of a distinctive Hispanic Enlightenment.

The interdisciplinary approach makes it an invaluable resource for students of Hispanic studies and researchers unfamiliar with the Hispanic Enlightenment, introducing them to the varied aspects of this rich cultural period including the literature, visual art, and social and cultural history.

part I|2 pages

A world of ideas

chapter 1|14 pages

The Enlightenment in Spain*

Classic and new historiographical perspectives 1
ByMónica Bolufer Peruga

chapter 2|13 pages

Other empires

Eighteenth-century Hispanic worlds and a global Enlightenment
ByKaren Stolley

chapter 3|13 pages

The georacial past in the New World present

Antonio de Ulloa’s Noticias Americanas (1772)
ByRuth Hill

chapter 4|14 pages

A line of touch

Liminality and environment in eighteenth-century Spanish Empire
ByNuria Valverde Pérez

chapter 5|12 pages

School or battlefield? Capmany’s modernity*

ByJesús Torrecilla

chapter 6|14 pages

Contesting the grounds for feminism in the Hispanic eighteenth century

The Enlightenment and its legacy
ByCatherine M. Jaffe

chapter 7|14 pages

Doubting the lettered city

Simón Rodríguez, Antonio José de Irisarri, and the literary skepticism of Rousseau 1
ByRonald Briggs

part II|2 pages

Reforming the public and private

chapter 8|13 pages

Connecting with European political economy in Spain

An institutional approach
ByJesús Astigarraga

chapter 9|14 pages

Women as public intellectuals during the Hispanic Enlightenment

The case of Josefa Amar y Borbón’s Ensayo histórico-apologético de la literatura española
ByElizabeth Franklin Lewis

chapter 11|15 pages

Negotiating subjectivities on the fringes of the empire

The port city of Cartagena de Indias as site of social and political convergence
ByMariselle Meléndez

chapter 12|13 pages

The urban cultural model

Center and periphery*
ByJoaquín Álvarez Barrientos

chapter 13|15 pages

Enlightenment thinking, court sociability, and visual culture

Francisco de Goya, painter
ByJesusa Vega

chapter 14|16 pages

“Open the door so that misery may leave”

Artisan education and the Royal Academy of San Carlos in late-eighteenth-century Mexico City
BySusan Deans-Smith

part III|2 pages

Interactions, exchanges, and circulations

chapter 15|15 pages

The Enlightenment and its interpreters*

Nobility, bureaucrats, and publicists
ByMaría Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo

chapter 16|13 pages

Circles of Enlightenment

Goya y sus amigos in the 1790s 1
ByJanis A. Tomlinson

chapter 19|13 pages

Translation in Enlightenment Spain*

ByMaría Jesús García Garrosa

chapter 20|15 pages

“Todos los progresos que ha hecho el entendimiento humano”

Knowledge, networking, and the encyclopedic turn in Enlightenment Spain
ByClorinda Donato, Manuel Romero

chapter 21|16 pages

To combat but not to arms

Galant music from Mexico City in honor of Carlos III
ByDrew Edward Davies

chapter 22|13 pages

Poverty, punishment, and the Enlightenment in the Spanish empire

Anti-vagrancy initiatives in late colonial Mexico from a transoceanic perspective
ByEva Maria Mehl

part IV|2 pages

Control and subversion

chapter 23|12 pages

“Relentless war”

Theater and censorship in eighteenth-century Spain
ByDavid T. Gies

chapter 24|13 pages

Majos in Madrid, presidiarios across empire

Territory, convict transport, and skits of the Age of Enlightenment
ByRebecca Haidt

chapter 25|13 pages

Found in translation

Homoerotica and unconventional Muslim masculinities in Gaspar María de Nava Álvarez’s Poesías asiáticas
ByMehl A. Penrose

chapter 26|13 pages

Inquisition and Enlightenment

ByDaniel Muñoz Sempere

chapter 27|16 pages

Positive and negative presence of a “radical Enlightenment” in New Spain*

ByGabriel Torres Puga

chapter 28|15 pages

Enlightenment, reform, and revolution in the Viceroyalty of Peru*

ByClaudia Rosas Lauro

chapter 29|13 pages

The Constitution of Cádiz and Spanish-American independence *

ByIvana Frasquet