The Routes of Modernity: Spanish American Poetry from the Early Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)

Developing a theoretical model for historical consciousness and its vicissitudes, this study argues for the emergence of modernity in Spanish America long before the advent of modernismo, while also focusing on obstacles specific to the literature of the region. The investigation pursues the routes of modernity through a set of interlocking readings of texts spanning the breadth of the late colonial world and its heirs over a century and a half.