Description: Sifilografía seeks to open a productive dialogue with other area studies about the disparate meanings of science and Enlightenment.
Review Quotes:
" Sifilografía is a highly original, groundbreaking piece of scholarship that offers a new perspective on the dialogue between early modern/modern fiction and the understanding of venereal diseases in Hispanic culture, delving into important topics like obscenity, contagion, and bodily transformation in the Spanish empire and its colonies. It is one of the very few studies that tackles Spain and the American colonies with equal dexterity and depth."
--Enrique García Santo-Toma´, University of Michigan, author of The Refracted Muse: Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain