1st Edition
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
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.
Foreword
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Early Modern Spain and the End of the Golden Age
Rodrigo Cacho Casal
Part I: Kingdom, Empire, World
1. The Impact of Spanish Imperial Political Culture in Iberia and Europe, 1500-1700
Thomas James Dandelet
2. Ruling the Hispanic Monarchy’s Overseas Territories
Pilar Ponce Leiva and Amorina Villarreal Brasca
3. Iberian Imperial Rivalries and the Missionary Conquest of Japan
Alejandro Cañeque
4. Time of Catastrophe: Temporalities in the Transatlantic Relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra
Elizabeth B. Davis
Part II: Knowledge, Capital, Control
5. Cosmography, Maritime Culture, and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Antonio Sánchez
6. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and the Celestial Bird: Wonder and Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Spanish Culture
José Ramón Marcaida
7. Reading under Surveillance: Arias Montano and the Invention of the Expurgatory Index (1571)
María José Vega
8. The Character and Cultures of Credit in Early Modern Spanish Texts: Matters of Trust, Belief, and Uncertainty
Elvira Vilches
Part III: Classicisms, Tradition, Invention
9. The Classicisms of the Golden Age
Roland Béhar
10. Locating Garcilaso de la Vega: Between Petrarchism and Vernacular Classicism
Antonio Gargano
11. After Amaryllis Began Her Sway: ‘Late’ Pastoral (and Early Fan Fiction) in the Poetry of Lope de Vega
Anne Holloway
12. Spanish Epics: Visions of War and Imperial Ideology
Lara Vilà
13. The Rise and Fall of Romances of Chivalry: ‘Todos ellos son una mesma cosa’?
Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga
14. The Spanish novella: Cervantes and his Forerunners
Valentín Núñez Rivera
Part IV: Language, Wit, Modernity
15. Triangles and Wheels, Telescopes and Flies: Gracián and the World of Wit
Jeremy Robbins
16. The Góngora Effect: An Interpretation of Gongorism
Mercedes Blanco
17. The Grammatical, the Vernacular, and the Corporeal
Caroline Egan
18. From Lazarillo to ‘otro Lazarillo’: The Picaresque Novel in Golden Age Spain
Robert A. Folger
19. Don Quixote and Its World: The Politics of Parody
Luis Gómez Canseco
Part V: Drama, Performance, Audience
20. Staging Madrid: Urban Comedy for a New Court Capital
Laura R. Bass
21. Exciting and Exploring Passions: Lope de Vega at the Limits of Poetics
Florence d’Artois
22. The Dramatic World of Pedro Calderón de la Barca: A Reappraisal of His Tragic Works
Fausta Antonucci
23. Autos Sacramentales: Historical World as Divine Pageant
Sofie Kluge
Part VI: Visual Culture, Music, Arts
24. José Antolínez, Metapainting and the Painting Profession in Golden Age Spain
Marta Cacho Casal
25. Uncovering the Uncovered: Nude Sculptures, their Display, and Viewership in Hapsburg Spain
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio
26. Spanish Architecture of the Golden Age: A New Old Story
Fernando Marías
27. Daily Musical Life in Early Modern Spain
Tess Knighton
Part VII: Faith, Race, Community
28. Heavenly Goods or Apprenticeship in Hell: Framing Devotion in Early Modern Spain
Arantza Mayo
29. The Western Sephardic Diaspora and European Literature
Valentina Nider
30. ‘Todos son uno’: Moriscos and the Question of Identity in Early Modern Spain
Trevor J. Dadson
31. Enslaved and Free Black Africans in Early Modern Spain
Erin Kathleen Rowe
32. Lives at the Margin: Spain’s Gypsies and the Law in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Richard J. Pym
Part VIII: Gender, Sexuality, Conflict
33. Women Administrators in Early Modern Spain
Margaret E. Boyle
34. Listening to Lesbians in Early Modern Spain
Sherry Velasco
35. The Transformation of Masculinity
Sidney Donnell
36. Desire, Fear, and the Inquisition: Male Homoeroticism in Early Modern Spain
Cristian Berco
Index
Fausta Antonucci is Professore Ordinario di Letteratura Spagnola at the Università Roma Tre, Italy.
Florence d’Artois is Maître de Conferences at Sorbonne Université, France.
Laura R. Bass is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, USA.
Roland Béhar is Maître de Conférences en Littérature Hispanique at the École Normale Supérieure-PSL, France.
Cristian Berco is Full Professor at Bishop’s University, Canada.
Mercedes Blanco is Professeur at Sorbonne Université, France.
Margaret E. Boyle is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College, USA.
Marta Cacho Casal is Research Associate in the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Rodrigo Cacho Casal is Professor of Early Modern Iberian and Latin American Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Alejandro Cañeque is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, USA.
Trevor J. Dadson † is Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Thomas James Dandelet is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Elizabeth B. Davis is Academy Professor at the Ohio State University, USA.
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio is Professor of Art History at the University of Vermont, USA.
Sidney Donnell is Professor of Spanish at Lafayette College, USA.
Caroline Egan is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, USA.
Robert A. Folger is Director of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Heidelberg University, Germany.
Antonio Gargano is Professore Ordinario di Letteratura Spagnola at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy.
Luis Gómez Canseco is Catedrático de Literatura Española at the Universidad de Huelva, Spain.
Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga is Profesor de Tiempo Completo del Colegio de Letras Hispánicas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.
Anne Holloway is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
Sofie Kluge is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Tess Knighton is Investigadora at the Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain.
José Ramón Marcaida is Lecturer in Art History at the University of St. Andrews, UK.
Fernando Marías is Catedrático de Historia del Arte at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Miembro de la Real Academia de la Historia, Spain.
Arantza Mayo is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Valentina Nider is Professoressa Ordinaria di Letteratura Spagnola at the Università di Bologna, Italy.
Valentín Núñez Rivera is Catedrático de Literatura Española at the Universidad de Huelva, Spain.
Pilar Ponce Leiva is Profesora Titular at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Richard J. Pym is Emeritus Reader in the Society and Culture of Early Modern Spain at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Jeremy Robbins is Forbes Chair of Spanish at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Erin Kathleen Rowe is Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Antonio Sánchez is Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
María José Vega is Catedrática de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Sherry Velasco is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California, USA.
Lara Vilà is Professora Agregada di Literatura Espanyola at the Universitat di Girona, Spain.
Elvira Vilches is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, USA.
Amorina Villarreal Brasca is Profesora Asociada at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Biography
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.
"The collection is an important contribution to the field, providing both a valuable aid to scholars seeking an up-to-date guide to debates in scholarship on early modern Spain and cutting-edge new research."
Maria Czepiel, University of Oxford, in Studia Aurea (Vol 17, 2023: 645-651)
