The Moral Electricity of Print - Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910 (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2017
Authors:	Ronald Briggs
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Plastic
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-2145-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8265-2145-2
Barcode:	9780826521453

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