Jonathan Carlyon

Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of early Enlightenment Spain's most important scholars, Andres Gonzalez de Barcia (1673-1743) produced more than two dozen critical editions of some of Spain's most significant works on the New World, many of which were already rare when he published them. In this highly original new book, Jonathan E. Carlyon traces Gonzalez de Barcia's work as editor, bibliographer, and author, focusing on his program of scholarly republication that resulted in the creation of the first comprehensive colonial Spanish American library. Gonzalez de Barcia established his collection to provide the historiography of the period with an order and clarity. He sought to underline what he considered to be the truth regarding colonial Spain by supplying his editions with marginal notes, prefatory writings, and scholarly indices. In so doing, he prepared the foundation for the modern study of colonial Spanish American letters. Andres Gonzalez de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library is an investigation into Gonzalez de Barcia and his editorial agenda. It is essential to understanding the nature and importance of this great scholar and his contribution to the development of Spanish historiography, bibliography, and book history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780802038456
• ISBN-10: 080203845X
• Artikelnr.: 22133030

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Earl Carlyon is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Colorado State University.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
1. Andrés González de Barcia as Commentator in the First Phase of His
Scholarship on the Historiography of the Indies
2. The Epítome de la Biblioteca, Before: Seventeenth-Century
Conceptualizations of the Bibliographical Mission: Antonio de León
Pinelo and Nicolás Antonio
3. The Epítome de la Biblioteca, After: Bibliography as a Reflection of
Andrés González de Barcia’s Intellectual Project for New World
Scholarship
4. Andrés González de Barcia’s Creation of the Spanish American Library
and His Edition of Gregorio García’s Origen de los Indios
5. The Index as a Scholarly and Political Tool in the Americanist
editions of Andrés González de Barcia
Appendix: Complete Bibliography of González de Barcia’s Americanist
Editions (1720–1743)
Notes
Works Cited
Index