1st Edition
The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age A Literature of Fragments
Contents
Chapter 1: Approaching Spanish Miscellaneity
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Terminology of Spanish Miscellaneity
1.3 The Antecedents of Spanish Miscellaneity
1.4 The Values of a Genre Approach to Spanish Miscellaneity
Chapter 2: Variety, Curiosity and Compilation
2.1 Variety
2.2 Men’s Curious Tastes
2.3 Vulgarisation through Compilation
Chapter 3: Knowledge, Authority and Themes
3.1 Breadth and Depth of Knowledge
3.2 Knowledge and Authority
3.3 Themes of Spanish Miscellaneity
Chapter 4: Macroforms of Spanish Miscellaneity
4.1 The Conversation of Spanish Miscellaneity
4.2 The Plain-prose Macroform
4.3 The Epistolary Macroform
4.4 The Dialogue Macroform
4.5 The Frame-story Macroform
Chapter 5: Microforms of Spanish Miscellaneity
5.1 The ‘Varied Reading’ of the Spanish Miscellanies
5.2 Poetry in the Spanish Miscellanies
5.3 Short Prose Fiction in the Spanish Miscellanies
Chapter 6: Conclusions and Future Directions
6.1 Conclusions
6.2 Future Avenues of Investigation
Bibliography
Provisional Corpus of Golden Age Spanish Miscellanies (by year)
Primary Works Cited
Secondary Texts Cited
Biography
Jonathan David Bradbury is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK.
