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Sifilografia - A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World (Hardcover)
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Sifilografia - A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World (Hardcover)
Series: Writing the Early Americas
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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
frances" or "el mal de las Indias." Sifilografia offers a cultural
history that traces syphilis and its consequences in the
transatlantic Spanish-speaking world throughout the long eighteenth
century. Juan Carlos Gonzalez 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,
Gonzalez 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. Sifilografia seeks to open a Productive
dialogue with other area studies about the disparate meanings of
science and Enlightenment.
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