Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1: Sor Juana Ine ́ s de la Cruz; 2: Gabriel Alvarez de Toledo; 3: Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo; 4: Francisco Botello de Moraes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Sceptres and Sciences argues convincingly that previous research on the Hispanic Late Baroque has underweighted the ideologies of ethnicity and empire embedded in Cartesianism and French neoclassicism