Mexican Jesuits write the history of the Americas : reason, rights, and revolution (1767-1824) /

This book examines how three exiled Jesuits from colonial Mexico, Rafael Landívar, Francisco Clavijero and Pedro Márquez, shaped the discourse of continental emancipation from Spain. By considering their works in relation to critical debates about the root causes of the international expulsion and s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ramos, Luis, 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, [2025].
Series:	Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2025:09.
Subjects:	Clavigero, Francesco Saverio, > 1731-1787. Landívar, Rafael, > 1731-1793. Marquez, Pietro, > 1741-1820. Jesuits > History > Suppression, 1773-1814. Mexico > History > Wars of Independence, 1810-1821. Mexico > History > Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: an intellectual polemic gives birth to a New World literary genre
Chapter 1: Enemies of the enlightened state: Francisco Clavijero on exiled Jesuits, sovereign power, and the contested futures of Spanish America
Chapter 2: Creole patriotism at a crossroads: mapping New Spain in Rafael Landívar's Rusticatio Mexicana
Chapter 3: Sacralizing Mexico in an age of reason: nostalgia and divine providence in Francisco Clavijero's Storia antica del Messico and Breve ragguaglio
Chapter 4: Antiquity in an age of revolution: Pedro Márquez on the transatlantic cultures of classical revival and universal rights
Conclusion: a poetics of continental independence.