Eve's Enlightenment
Subtitle: women's experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839
By: edited by Catherine M. Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis.
Contributors: Jaffe, Catherine Marie, 1958-; Lewis, Elizabeth Franklin, 1964-
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780807133897
Subjects: Women -- Spain -- History -- 18th century; Women -- Spain -- Intellectual life; Women -- Latin America -- History -- 18th century; Women -- Latin America -- Intellectual life; Enlightenment -- Spain; Enlightenment -- Latin America; Spanish literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Latin American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Spain; Women and literature -- Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Catherine M. Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis; title: Women and the republic of letters; title: Women of letters in eighteenth-century Spain: between tradition and modernity / Mónica Bolufer Peruga; title: Enlightenment experience in the life and poetry of Sor María Gertrudis de la Cruz Hore / Frederique Morand; title: Reasons for education: new echoes of the polemic / Isabel Morant Deusa; title: Margarita Hickey's guide to the traps of love / María A. Salgado; title: Illustrating sainthood: the construction of eighteenth-century Spanish American hagiography / Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela; title: Women's lives: material and social practices; title: Women in society in eighteenth-century Spain: models of sociability / María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo; title: The wife, the maid, and the woman in the street / Rebecca Haidt; title: Women alone in enlightenment Spain / María Jose de la Pascua Sánchez; title: An enlightened perspective on hysteria in eighteenth-century Mexico / Beatriz Quintanilla-Madero; title: Representations of women: between rational equality and sensibility; title: The enlightenment origins of Cuba's iconic mulata / Lucy D. Harney; title: Doña Leonora's library: women's reading from the Spectator (1711) to El Semanario de Salamanca (1795) / Catherine M. Jaffe; title: "Virtue in distress" in the Spanish sentimental novel: an unsustainable model of rational sensibility / Ana Rueda; title: Mothers, majas, and marcialidad: faces of enlightenment in Spain / Janis A. Tomlinson; title: Contributors; title: Index.