Tropes of enlightenment in the age of Bolivar
Subtitle: Simon Rodriguez and the American essay at Revolution
By: Ronald Briggs.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826516930
Subjects: Rodríguez, Simón, -- 1769-1854 -- Philosophy; Rodríguez, Simón, -- 1769-1854 -- Literary style; Latin America -- History -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a hemispheric insider takes the essay; title: American asylum and the rhetoric of escape; title: Harmony in new world nature and old world eyes; title: Education, republican values, and intellectual independence; title: The quest for a new world language; title: Paper utopias : the political and artistic avant-garde; title: Conclusion : a hemisphere created for the page.