Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Rhetoric and reality in early modern Spain / edited by Richard J. Pym
Published Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2006

Copies

Description 1 online resource (x, 177 pages)
Series Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografı́as ; 227
Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 227.
Contents CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; Official Rhetoric versus Local Reality: Propaganda and the Expulsion of the Moriscos; Arbitrismo and the Early Seventeenth-Century Spanish Church: The Theory and Practice of Anti-Clericalist Philosophy; Law and Disorder: Anti-Gypsy Legislation and its Failures in Seventeenth-Century Spain; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Jewess of Venice: Tolerance, Interfaith Sexuality and Converso Culture; Representing their Sex: Actresses in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Public Morality and the Closure of the Theatres in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: Philip IV, the Council of Castile and the Arrival of Mariana of AustriaThe Politics of Memory in El Tuzaní de la Alpujarra; 'Seguid la guerra y renovad los daños': Implicit Pacifism in Cervantes's La Numancia; Here and There, acá and allá: The Origins of Authority in Oviedo's Historia natural y general de las Indias; WORKS CITED; INDEX
Summary The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Rhetoric -- Spain -- History
HISTORY.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Rhetoric
SUBJECT Spain -- History -- House of Austria, 1516-1700. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126077
Subject Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pym, Richard
ISBN 9781846155031
1846155037