Description
What did Europe owe Spain in the eighteenth century? This infamous question, posed by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers in the Encyclopedie methodique, caused an international uproar at the height of the Enlightenment. His polemical article 'Espagne', with its tabloid-like prose, resonated with a French-reading public that blamed the Spanish Empire for France's eroding economy. Spain was outraged, and responded by publishing its own translation-rebuttal, the article 'Espana' penned by Julian de Velasco for the Spanish Encyclopedia metodica.
In this volume, the original French and Spanish articles are presented in facing-page English translations, allowing readers to examine the content and rhetorical maneuvers of Masson's challenge and Velasco's riposte. This comparative format, along with the editors' critical introduction, extensive annotations, and an accompanying bibliographical essay, reveals how knowledge was translated and transferred across Europe and the transatlantic world. The two encyclopedia articles bring to life a crucial period of Spanish history, culture and commerce, while offering an alternative framework for understanding the intellectual underpinnings of a Spanish Enlightenment that differed radically from French philosophie. Ultimately, this book uncovers a Spain determined to claim its place in the European Enlightenment and on the geopolitical stage.
About the Author
Clorinda Donato is Professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, where she holds the George L. Graziadio Chair for Italian Studies and directs the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies. She is an eighteenth-century scholar who researches knowledge transfer through translation and genre adaptation in encyclopedic compilations. She also works on gender in medical and literary accounts. She has published 'Enlightenment Spain and the Encyclopedie Methodique',(OSE, 2015:11) with Ricardo Lopez. Forthcoming with University of Toronto Press is Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680-1830, co-edited with Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink.
Reviews
Reviews 'ce travail veut etre une contribution a l'etude d'une 'geographie des Lumieres'' et du regard des nations eclairees sur les autres nations, aussi bien que des reponses de celles-ci a ces regards.'
Dix-huitieme siecle
'[...] it offers both scholars and students emblematic sources of a crucial period of Spanish history, culture and commerce, as well as a more profound understanding of cultural and knowledge transfer in Enlightened Europe.'
Modern Language Review
'Pour la premiere fois [...] grace a cette compilation minutieuse de dix ans de travail, une vision reelle des ecrits dans une relation triangulaire de la langue, des disciplines et des divisions entre l'Europe du Nord, l'Europe du Sud et la peninsula iberique.'
Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopedie
'Thanks to [the editors'] efforts and their excellent translations, we now have access, in the same volume, to one of eighteenth-century Spain's most fervent polemics. This work is a most welcome addition to eighteenth-century scholarship.'
Dieciocho
Book Information
ISBN 9780729411707
Author Clorinda Donato
Format Paperback
Page Count 332
Imprint Voltaire Foundation
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Weight(grams) 300g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 20mm
In this volume, the original French and Spanish articles are presented in facing-page English translations, allowing readers to examine the content and rhetorical maneuvers of Masson's challenge and Velasco's riposte. This comparative format, along with the editors' critical introduction, extensive annotations, and an accompanying bibliographical essay, reveals how knowledge was translated and transferred across Europe and the transatlantic world. The two encyclopedia articles bring to life a crucial period of Spanish history, culture and commerce, while offering an alternative framework for understanding the intellectual underpinnings of a Spanish Enlightenment that differed radically from French philosophie. Ultimately, this book uncovers a Spain determined to claim its place in the European Enlightenment and on the geopolitical stage.
About the Author
Clorinda Donato is Professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, where she holds the George L. Graziadio Chair for Italian Studies and directs the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies. She is an eighteenth-century scholar who researches knowledge transfer through translation and genre adaptation in encyclopedic compilations. She also works on gender in medical and literary accounts. She has published 'Enlightenment Spain and the Encyclopedie Methodique',(OSE, 2015:11) with Ricardo Lopez. Forthcoming with University of Toronto Press is Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680-1830, co-edited with Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink.
Reviews
Reviews 'ce travail veut etre une contribution a l'etude d'une 'geographie des Lumieres'' et du regard des nations eclairees sur les autres nations, aussi bien que des reponses de celles-ci a ces regards.'
Dix-huitieme siecle
'[...] it offers both scholars and students emblematic sources of a crucial period of Spanish history, culture and commerce, as well as a more profound understanding of cultural and knowledge transfer in Enlightened Europe.'
Modern Language Review
'Pour la premiere fois [...] grace a cette compilation minutieuse de dix ans de travail, une vision reelle des ecrits dans une relation triangulaire de la langue, des disciplines et des divisions entre l'Europe du Nord, l'Europe du Sud et la peninsula iberique.'
Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopedie
'Thanks to [the editors'] efforts and their excellent translations, we now have access, in the same volume, to one of eighteenth-century Spain's most fervent polemics. This work is a most welcome addition to eighteenth-century scholarship.'
Dieciocho
Book Information
ISBN 9780729411707
Author Clorinda Donato
Format Paperback
Page Count 332
Imprint Voltaire Foundation
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Weight(grams) 300g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 20mm
