Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain

Name: Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain
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Collecting and displaying finely crafted objects was a mark of character among the royals and aristocrats in Early Modern Spain: it ranked with extravagant hospitality as a sign of nobility and with virtue as a token of princely power. Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain explores how the writers of the period shared the same impulse to collect, arrange, and display objects, though in imagined settings, as literary artefacts. These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads. The contributors emphasize how literature preserved and transformed objects to endow them with new meaning for aesthetic, social, religious, and political purposes – whether to perpetuate certain habits of thought and belief, or to challenge accepted social and moral norms.

Author Biography:

Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. Frederick A. de Armas is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago..

Release date Australia

August 16th, 2022

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Toronto Iberic

Pages

352

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

14 b&w illustrations

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9781487547691

Product ID

35945185

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