Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America
Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spains eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Introduction to her career and internationally influential writings, three previously unpublished essays by McClelland and nine studies by other scholars, all of which are focused on elucidating the Enlightenment and its characteristic manifestations in the Hispanic world.
Among the Enlightenment writers and artists, works and genres, themes and issues discussed, are: Nicols Moratn and epic poetry, Lillos The London Merchant and English and French influences on eighteenth-century Spanish drama, Jos Marchena and literary historiography, oppositions and misunderstandings within Spanish society as reflected in El s de las nias, Goya and the visual arts, Quintanas Pelayo and historical tragedy, Enlightenment discourse, the Periodical Press, theatre as propaganda, the ideology and politics of Empire, the roots of revolt in late viceregal Quito, womens experience of Enlightenment in Spain, social and cultural difference in colonial Peru, ideological debate and uncertainty during the Age of Reason, eighteenth-century Spain on the nineteenth-century stage, and public opinion in Spain on the eve of the French, and European, Revolution.
First published as a Special Double Issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies (LXXXVI [NovemberDecember 2009], Nos 78), this book will be of value and stimulus to all scholars concerned to investigate and interpret the culture, theatre, ideology, society and politics of the Enlightenment in Spain, Europe and Spanish America.
Ann L. Mackenzie is Ivy McClelland Research Professor of Spanish at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Jeremy Robbins is Forbes Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America
Studies on Culture and Theatre in Memory of I. L. McClelland
Edited, with an Introduction, by Ann L. Mackenzie and Jeremy Robbins
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CONTENTS
ANN L. MACKENZIE
CERI BYRNE
I. L. McCLELLAND [ed. Ann L. Mackenzie]
CIARA OHAGAN
JOAQUN LVAREZ BARRIENTOS
MARISELLE MELNDEZ
RUTH HILL
NIGEL GLENDINNING
I. L. McCLELLAND [ed. Fernando Huerta Vias]
DONALD L. SHAW
SALLY-ANN KITTS
PHILIP DEACON
DAVID T. GIES
I. L. McCLELLAND [ed. Ann L. Mackenzie]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Photograph of Ivy McClelland receiving from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor (now Sir) Graeme Davies, a presentation-copy of The Eighteenth Century in Spain. Essays in Honour of I. L. McClelland, University of Liverpool, 22 April 1991. Reproduced by courtesy of the Archives, University of Liverpool
[] Estado que demuestra el numero de Abitantes del Obpdo. de Truxillo (from Baltasar Martnez Compan, Truxillo del Per). Courtesy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. Copyright Patrimonio Nacional
[] Estado que demuestra el numero de Abitantes del Obpdo. de Truxillo (from Baltasar Martnez Compan, Truxillo del Per). Courtesy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. Copyright Patrimonio Nacional
[] Mestizas de Chachapoyas cosiendo rengos (from Baltasar Martnez Compan, Truxillo del Per). Courtesy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. Copyright Patrimonio Nacional
[] Ydem [Danza] de Negros (from Baltasar Martnez Compan, Truxillo del Per). Courtesy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. Copyright Patrimonio Nacional
[] Negro sacando piques (from Baltasar Martnez Compan, Truxillo del Per). Courtesy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. Copyright Patrimonio Nacional
[] Negro (from Baltasar Martnez Compan, Truxillo del Per). Courtesy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. Copyright Patrimonio Nacional
[] Negra (from Baltasar Martnez Compan, Truxillo del Per). Courtesy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. Copyright Patrimonio Nacional
[] Danza de bailanegritos (from Baltasar Martnez Compan, Truxillo del Per). Courtesy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. Copyright Patrimonio Nacional
[] Saca y beneficio de la brea del mineral amotape (from Baltasar Martnez Compan, Truxillo del Per). Courtesy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. Copyright Patrimonio Nacional
Her work is in the library of every university where Spanish is taken seriously. It is and has long been essential reading for anyone working in the eighteenth-century field. Her scholarship is superb, her mind razorsharp and her writing crisp. She dwarfed all but two or three of the British Hispanists of her generation, which was the generation of giants in our field.
(Donald L. Shaw, Brown-Forman Professor, University of Virginia)1
This volume issued in memory of Ivy McClelland, which also signals the recent hundredth anniversary of her birth, is the second Festschrift to appear in the Bulletin, to honour her contributions made to Hispanic Studies. A previous volume, titled The Eighteenth Century in Spain. Essays in Honour of I. L. McClelland, was presented to her on 22 April 1991 in Liverpool University, her
