Sifilografia: A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World - Writing the Early Americas

Offers a cultural history that traces syphilis and its consequences in the transatlantic Spanish-speaking world throughout the long eighteenth century. Juan Carlos González Espitia explores how fears of the disease and the search for its cure mobilized a transoceanic dialogue that forms an underside of Enlightenment narratives of progress.