ABSTRACT
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.
Spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (a period traditionally known as the Golden Age), the volume examines topics including political and scientific culture, literary and artistic innovations, and religious and social identities and institutions in transformation. The 36 chapters of the volume include both expert overviews of key topics and figures from the period as well as new approaches to understudied questions and materials.
This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in Hispanic studies, as well as Renaissance and early modern studies more generally.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|63 pages
Kingdom, empire, world
chapter 4|15 pages
Time of Catastrophe
part II|63 pages
Knowledge, capital, control
chapter 6|14 pages
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and the Celestial Bird
chapter 7|17 pages
Reading Under Surveillance
chapter 8|16 pages
The Character and Cultures of Credit in Early Modern Spanish Texts
part III|100 pages
Classicisms, tradition, invention
chapter 11|19 pages
After Amaryllis Began Her Sway
part IV|80 pages
Language, wit, modernity
part V|65 pages
Drama, performance, audience
chapter 22|14 pages
The Dramatic World of Pedro Calderón de la Barca
part VI|98 pages
Visual culture, music, arts
chapter 25|29 pages
Uncovering the Uncovered
part VII|83 pages
Faith, race, community
chapter 32|15 pages
Lives at the Margin
part VIII|63 pages
Gender, sexuality, conflict