Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Colección: Mimesis ; 115
Número de páginas: 384 págs.
Fecha de edición: 07-10-2024
EAN: 9783111388434
ISBN: 978-3-11-138843-4
Precio (sin IVA): 120,95 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 125,79 €
This book explores the emergence of literary history and criticism in the Americas during the 18th century, focusing on natural history as a matrix for literary history and criticism, the geopolitical functions of literary criticism in the periodical press, and the recovery of manuscripts as a residual product of modernity.
The study questions the epistemological conflicts provoked by the manuscript status of a considerable part of 18th-century scholarship, in which the projects of an American modernity appear subjugated by and yet resilient to the power of the European printing press.