Lima Inside and Out: City Criticism and Transatlantic Book Confiscation around 1800

Gehbald, Agnes (2022). Lima Inside and Out: City Criticism and Transatlantic Book Confiscation around 1800. Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, 1(2), pp. 141-160. Liverpool University Press https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.19

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Satire was a flourishing literary genre in colonial contexts with the specific
mode of city criticism subverting the official order. At the turn of the century, the idea of a city in the Iberian Atlantic world would comprehend a notion of an ordered locus and society. Critiques of the capital of Lima thus included several stereotypes about urban social chaos criticizing the changing reality of late colonial Peru. This article explores the itinerary of a specific book, Lima por dentro y fuera by the Spaniard Esteban Terralla y Landa, published first in 1797, and which offers a rare opportunity to study contemporary judgement and transatlantic censure history. Tracing the processes of printing, reprinting, and re-collection at both sides of the Atlantic – in Lima and Madrid – it tells a
story of reception and rejection, and of how Spanish colonial authorities tried to prevent the circulation of censorious literature about the viceregal capital.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Institute of History, Modern and Contemporary History
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Modern and Contemporary History

UniBE Contributor:

Gehbald, Agnes

Subjects:

900 History

ISSN:

2752-6631

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Agnes Kathrin Gehbald

Date Deposited:

01 Feb 2023 09:37

Last Modified:

21 Mar 2024 10:55

Publisher DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.19

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/177560

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/177560

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