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

Briggs, whose second book focuses on the literary and pedagogical concerns of a group of intellectuals based in Lima, argues that the "transnational print networks" of this group sought to "expose the contingency of the nation-state" as well as "generate a positive correctiv...

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Published in:The Latin Americanist (Orlando, Fla.) Fla.), 2019, Vol.63 (2), p.252-253
Main Author: Manley, Elizabeth S
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Biographies
Education
Electricity
Emancipation
Pedagogy
Printing
Transnationalism
Women
Working women
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Summary:Briggs, whose second book focuses on the literary and pedagogical concerns of a group of intellectuals based in Lima, argues that the "transnational print networks" of this group sought to "expose the contingency of the nation-state" as well as "generate a positive corrective of its own, articulating a particular American aesthetic that would synthesize what they saw as the unrealized promises of independence" (10-11). While the central cog in this project was the idea of the "book as a project capable of shaping the future," his detailed analysis of the most prominent selections demonstrates how members of the intellectual elite of Lima cited, engaged, used, and reused such ideal texts that were circulating across the hemisphere and beyond (45). The book engages with the debates on female emancipation embedded in a number of these texts, particularly in the last three chapters, and the ways in which women writers sought to create "a tool for legitimizing education and letters as professional fields in which [women could] locate themselves" (76).
ISSN:1557-2021
1557-203X