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.

part I|63 pages

Kingdom, empire, world

part II|63 pages

Knowledge, capital, control

chapter 6|14 pages

Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and the Celestial Bird

Wonder and natural knowledge in early modern Spanish culture 1

chapter 7|17 pages

Reading Under Surveillance

Arias Montano and the invention of the expurgatory index 1

chapter 8|16 pages

The Character and Cultures of Credit in Early Modern Spanish Texts

Matters of trust, belief, and uncertainty

part III|100 pages

Classicisms, tradition, invention

chapter 9|15 pages

The Classicisms of the Golden Age

chapter 10|18 pages

Locating Garcilaso de la Vega

Between Petrarchism and vernacular classicism

chapter 11|19 pages

After Amaryllis Began Her Sway

‘Late’ pastoral (and early fan fiction) in the poetry of Lope de Vega

chapter 12|14 pages

Spanish Epics

Visions of war and imperial ideology

chapter 13|16 pages

The Rise and Fall of Romances of Chivalry

‘Todos ellos son una mesma cosa’? 1

chapter 14|16 pages

The Spanish Novella

Cervantes and his forerunners

part IV|80 pages

Language, wit, modernity

chapter 15|16 pages

Triangles and Wheels, Telescopes and Flies

Gracián and the world of wit

chapter 16|16 pages

The Góngora Effect

An interpretation of Gongorism

chapter 18|14 pages

From Lazarillo to ‘Otro Lazarillo’

The picaresque novel in Golden Age Spain

chapter 19|16 pages

Don Quixote and its World

The politics of parody

part V|65 pages

Drama, performance, audience

chapter 20|20 pages

Staging Madrid

Urban comedy for a new court capital

chapter 21|13 pages

Exciting and Exploring Passions

Lope de Vega at the limits of poetics

chapter 22|14 pages

The Dramatic World of Pedro Calderón de la Barca

A reappraisal of his tragic works

chapter 23|16 pages

Autos Sacramentales

Historical world as divine pageant

part VI|98 pages

Visual culture, music, arts

chapter 25|29 pages

Uncovering the Uncovered

Nude sculptures, their display, and viewership in Hapsburg Spain

chapter 26|29 pages

Spanish Architecture of the Golden Age

A new old story

part VII|83 pages

Faith, race, community

chapter 28|15 pages

Heavenly Goods or Apprenticeship in Hell

Framing devotion in early modern Spain

chapter 30|16 pages

‘Todos Son Uno’

Moriscos and the question of identity in early modern Spain

chapter 32|15 pages

Lives at the Margin

Spain's gypsies and the law in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

part VIII|63 pages

Gender, sexuality, conflict

chapter 35|18 pages

The Transformation of Masculinity

chapter 36|13 pages

Desire, Fear, and the Inquisition

Male homoeroticism in early modern Spain 1