TY - BOOK ID - 85826886 TI - Polemics, literature, and knowledge in eighteenth-century Mexico : a new world for the republic of letters PY - 2021 SN - 9781800348127 1800348126 PB - Oxford Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Communication in learning and scholarship KW - Mexican literature KW - Enlightenment. KW - Communication in learning and scholarship. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Mexican literature. KW - Social conditions. KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - Republic of Letters (Society) KW - 1700-1799 KW - Mexico KW - Mexico. KW - Intellectual life KW - Social conditions KW - Enlightenment KW - Aufklärung KW - Eighteenth century KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Rationalism KW - Communication in scholarship KW - Scholarly communication KW - Learning and scholarship KW - History and criticism KW - TRL (Society) KW - Respublica literaria (Society) KW - Anáhuac KW - Estados Unidos Mexicanos KW - Maxico KW - Méjico KW - Mekishiko KW - Meḳsiḳe KW - Meksiko KW - Meksyk KW - Messico KW - Mexique (Country) KW - República Mexicana KW - Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku KW - United Mexican States KW - United States of Mexico KW - מקסיקו KW - メキシコ KW - Science KW - Literature KW - anno 1800-1899 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85826886 AB - Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico is the first study to comprehensively analyse the configuration of the idea of the Republic of Letters in an eighteenth-century Latin American country.Taking a multisided approach to Mexican culture of the era, this book's analysis of literary texts engages with an exploration of such concepts as the Republic of Letters and the archive, as well as their connections to transatlantic polemics on knowledge production in the New World and debates onphilosophical systems of learning. It furthermore draws upon the history of science in Mexico in order to trace the development of scientific thought and its influence on culture, religion, and fiction. This study proposes that eighteenth-century Mexican writers sought to establish a place within aglobal scholarly community for their local literary republic through the formation of scholarly networks, the historical exploration of the past and present, and the creation of new epistemological approaches to literary production inspired by Enlightenment ideas.This book invites those devoted to the study of eighteenth-century cultures to engage in an examination of a lesser-explored scholarly territory and its networks, and to think about how it was heterogeneously constructed by many-sided polemics and debates which manifested in a broad range ofliterary works. ER -