Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
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Ec V14N2 122
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RESENAS
The author/compiler of this volume had no easy task when he set out
to prepare an anthology of literature produced, after all, during the same
century that generated the French and American revolutions, modern
dance, the idea of the department store and the first business schools-
a century, that is, encyclopedic in its ambitions and eclectic in its inter-
ests. Those writing during the eighteenth century in Spain left behind a
dizzying number of texts in a multiplicity of genres and treating a vast
spectrum of concerns, from arousing anacreontics to reforms in agrar-
ian law; from theories of beauty to satires of farting; from debates con-
cerning the rights of women to the history of the Basque language. No
easy task, certainly, to decide which are the best works of «Spanish Lit-
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