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Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity (2020)
Book
Sharman, A. (2020). Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37019-0

This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence—there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it. It explores texts from five cultural fields (science, history, the periodical press, law, and literatu... Read More about Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity.

Towards a literary public sphere: the Mercurio Peruano, Lima, 1791 (2017)
Journal Article
Sharman, A. (2017). Towards a literary public sphere: the Mercurio Peruano, Lima, 1791. Hispanic Research Journal, 18(4), 306-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2017.1337880

This article examines the applicability of Habermas’ concept of the public sphere to the periodical paper the Mercurio Peruano in 1791. It compares the conditions of production of Habermas’ ‘model’ eighteenth-century European bourgeois public sphere... Read More about Towards a literary public sphere: the Mercurio Peruano, Lima, 1791.

‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’ (2011)
Journal Article
Sharman, A. (2011). ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 30(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00528.x

The article examines two ‘postmodern’ critiques of modernity: a general history which argues that it was never solely Western, and a work of Latin American cultural criticism which wishes to leave a modernity seen as eurocentric. It argues that to u... Read More about ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’.