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Culture and the State in Spain 1550-1850
336 Pages
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Routledge
330 Pages
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Routledge
336 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume address the role of literature in the formation of cultural notions of 'state,' 'nation,' 'subject,' and 'citizen' in Spain from the Renaissance to the Romantic period. It brings together literary scholars and historians of the Golden Age and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a dialog framed by the rise and dissolution of the Absolutist state. Individual essays attempt to... Read more
1: Cristóbal de Villalón: Language, Education, and the Absolutist State; 2: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Making of the Spanish State; 3: A Discourse on Wealth in Golden Age Literature; 4: Patronage, the Parody of an Institution in Don Quijote; 5: Printing and Reading Popular Religious Texts in Sixteenth-Century Spain; 6: Emblematic Representation and Guided Culture in Baroque Spain: Juan de Horozco y Covarrubias; 7: Intellectuals, the State, and the Public Sphere in Spain: 1700-1840; 8: Constituting the Subject: Race, Gender, and Nation in the Early Nineteenth Century; 9: Religious Subject-Forms: Nationalism, Literature, and the Consolidation of Moderantismo in Spain during the 1840s; 9: Afterword
Biography
Thomas Lewis, Francisco J. Sanchez
