Anxiety of Sameness in Early Modern Spain

Informationen zum Autor Christina H. Lee is Tenured Research Scholar in the department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University Klappentext The author examines a very broad range of fiction and non fiction works, many relatively unknown, to analyse how discourses about non-elites, conversos and moriscos, reveal anxieties in their Old Christian readers and authors. Zusammenfassung The author examines a very broad range of fiction and non fiction works! many relatively unknown! to analyse how discourses about non-elites! conversos and moriscos! reveal anxieties in their Old Christian readers and authors. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart 1: The usurpation of nobility and lowborn passers1. Theorising and practicing nobility2. The forgery of nobility in literary textsPart II: Conversos and the threat of sameness3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses4. The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary textsPart III: Moriscos and the reassurance of difference5. Imagining the Morisco problem6. Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary textsConclusionBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Christina H Lee, Christina H. Lee, Christina H. (Associate Professor of Spanish Lee
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2015
• EAN: 9781784991203
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-120-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Early Modern European History; Studies in Early Modern Europe
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories