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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.

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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.

"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 Czepie in Studia Aurea, Vol. 17 (2023)

?The volume?s introduction and thirty-six chapters approach this world from a panoply of different perspectives, gathered into eight thematic sections or parts, each of which is grouped around three keywords. [?] The volume is thus a substantial one, significant in its range, and with some variation in methodology: many authors provide focused reviews of scholarly literature alongside specific case studies, while others build a case from first principles; both approaches implicitly cater to the companion?s twofold audience and purpose. [?] what is valuable here is the snapshot of a burgeoning discipline reconsidering and moving beyond that traditional canon, mapping its own borders as its many interconnected points of focus continue to expand.?

Richard Rabone in Bulletin of the Comediantes, 75(1)

?Una de las virtudes más destacadas del Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture es, precisamente, proponer una aproximación diferente a la cultura, la literatura y el arte en la Espa?a de la temprana modernidad, llamando a revisión tanto los conceptos críticos como los planteamientos teóricos más recurrentes en el estudio de esta época. [?] Los treinta y seis capítulos que conforman este monumental compendio representan una importante contribución a los estudios hispánicos no sólo por la relevancia en sí de los temas tratados sino, fundamentalmente, porque propone una revisión de los conceptos, paradigmas y teorías que han ocupado el campo crítico de la temprana modernidad hispánica en los últimos a?os. No cabe duda que este magnífico Companion viene a dar nuevos bríos a las a?ejas controversias académicas, al tiempo que fertiliza el terreno para proponer nuevas aproximaciones.?

Ulises Bravo López, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Bulletin Hispanique, 127(1)

Table of Contents:

Foreword, List of Contributors, Abbreviations, Early Modern Spain and the End of the Golden Age, Part I: Kingdom, Empire, World, 1. The Impact of Spanish Imperial Political Culture in Iberia and Europe, 1500-1700, 2. Ruling the Hispanic Monarchy?s Overseas Territories, 3. Iberian Imperial Rivalries and the Missionary Conquest of Japan, 4. Time of Catastrophe: Temporalities in the Transatlantic Relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra, Part II: Knowledge, Capital, Control, 5. Cosmography, Maritime Culture, and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern Spanish Empire, 6. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and the Celestial Bird: Wonder and Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Spanish Culture, 7. Reading under Surveillance: Arias Montano and the Invention of the Expurgatory Index (1571), 8. The Character and Cultures of Credit in Early Modern Spanish Texts: Matters of Trust, Belief, and Uncertainty, Part III: Classicisms, Tradition, Invention, 9. The Classicisms of the Golden Age, 10. Locating Garcilaso de la Vega: Between Petrarchism and Vernacular Classicism, 11. After Amaryllis Began Her Sway: ?Late? Pastoral (and Early Fan Fiction) in the Poetry of Lope de Vega, 12. Spanish Epics: Visions of War and Imperial Ideology, 13. The Rise and Fall of Romances of Chivalry: ?Todos ellos son una mesma cosa??, 14. The Spanish novella: Cervantes and his Forerunners, Part IV: Language, Wit, Modernity, 15. Triangles and Wheels, Telescopes and Flies: Gracián and the World of Wit, 16. The Góngora Effect: An Interpretation of Gongorism, 17. The Grammatical, the Vernacular, and the Corporeal, 18. From Lazarillo to ?otro Lazarillo?: The Picaresque Novel in Golden Age Spain, 19. Don Quixote and Its World: The Politics of Parody, Part V: Drama, Performance, Audience, 20. Staging Madrid: Urban Comedy for a New Court Capital, 21. Exciting and Exploring Passions: Lope de Vega at the Limits of Poetics, 22. The Dramatic World of Pedro Calderón de la Barca: A Reappraisal of His Tragic Works, 23. Autos Sacramentales: Historical World as Divine Pageant, Part VI: Visual Culture, Music, Arts, 24. José Antolínez, Metapainting and the Painting Profession in Golden Age Spain, 25. Uncovering the Uncovered: Nude Sculptures, their Display, and Viewership in Hapsburg Spain, 26. Spanish Architecture of the Golden Age: A New Old Story, 27. Daily Musical Life in Early Modern Spain, Part VII: Faith, Race, Community, 28. Heavenly Goods or Apprenticeship in Hell: Framing Devotion in Early Modern Spain, 29. The Western Sephardic Diaspora and European Literature, 30. ?Todos son uno?: Moriscos and the Question of Identity in Early Modern Spain, 31. Enslaved and Free Black Africans in Early Modern Spain, 32. Lives at the Margin: Spain?s Gypsies and the Law in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries, Part VIII: Gender, Sexuality, Conflict, 33. Women Administrators in Early Modern Spain, 34. Listening to Lesbians in Early Modern Spain, 35. The Transformation of Masculinity, 36. Desire, Fear, and the Inquisition: Male Homoeroticism in Early Modern Spain, Index