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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual and artistic breadth of early modern Spain from a range of disciplinary and critical perspectives.
List of contents
Foreword, List of Contributors, Abbreviations, Early Modern Spain and the End of the Golden Age, Part I: Kingdom, Empire, World, 1. The Impact of Spanish Imperial Political Culture in Iberia and Europe, 1500-1700, 2. Ruling the Hispanic Monarchy’s Overseas Territories, 3. Iberian Imperial Rivalries and the Missionary Conquest of Japan, 4. Time of Catastrophe: Temporalities in the Transatlantic Relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra, Part II: Knowledge, Capital, Control, 5. Cosmography, Maritime Culture, and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern Spanish Empire, 6. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and the Celestial Bird: Wonder and Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Spanish Culture, 7. Reading under Surveillance: Arias Montano and the Invention of the Expurgatory Index (1571), 8. The Character and Cultures of Credit in Early Modern Spanish Texts: Matters of Trust, Belief, and Uncertainty, Part III: Classicisms, Tradition, Invention, 9. The Classicisms of the Golden Age, 10. Locating Garcilaso de la Vega: Between Petrarchism and Vernacular Classicism, 11. After Amaryllis Began Her Sway: ‘Late’ Pastoral (and Early Fan Fiction) in the Poetry of Lope de Vega, 12. Spanish Epics: Visions of War and Imperial Ideology, 13. The Rise and Fall of Romances of Chivalry: ‘Todos ellos son una mesma cosa’?, 14. The Spanish novella: Cervantes and his Forerunners, Part IV: Language, Wit, Modernity, 15. Triangles and Wheels, Telescopes and Flies: Gracián and the World of Wit, 16. The Góngora Effect: An Interpretation of Gongorism, 17. The Grammatical, the Vernacular, and the Corporeal, 18. From Lazarillo to ‘otro Lazarillo’: The Picaresque Novel in Golden Age Spain, 19. Don Quixote and Its World: The Politics of Parody, Part V: Drama, Performance, Audience, 20. Staging Madrid: Urban Comedy for a New Court Capital, 21. Exciting and Exploring Passions: Lope de Vega at the Limits of Poetics, 22. The Dramatic World of Pedro Calderón de la Barca: A Reappraisal of His Tragic Works, 23. Autos Sacramentales: Historical World as Divine Pageant, Part VI: Visual Culture, Music, Arts, 24. José Antolínez, Metapainting and the Painting Profession in Golden Age Spain, 25. Uncovering the Uncovered: Nude Sculptures, their Display, and Viewership in Hapsburg Spain, 26. Spanish Architecture of the Golden Age: A New Old Story, 27. Daily Musical Life in Early Modern Spain, Part VII: Faith, Race, Community, 28. Heavenly Goods or Apprenticeship in Hell: Framing Devotion in Early Modern Spain, 29. The Western Sephardic Diaspora and European Literature, 30. ‘Todos son uno’: Moriscos and the Question of Identity in Early Modern Spain, 31. Enslaved and Free Black Africans in Early Modern Spain, 32. Lives at the Margin: Spain’s Gypsies and the Law in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries, Part VIII: Gender, Sexuality, Conflict, 33. Women Administrators in Early Modern Spain, 34. Listening to Lesbians in Early Modern Spain, 35. The Transformation of Masculinity, 36. Desire, Fear, and the Inquisition: Male Homoeroticism in Early Modern Spain, Index
About the author
Rodrigo Cacho Casal is Professor of Early Modern Iberian and Latin American Literature at University of Cambridge, UK.
Caroline Egan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, USA.
Summary
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual and artistic breadth of early modern Spain from a range of disciplinary and critical perspectives.
