The refracted muse : literature and optics in early modern Spain / Enrique García Santo-Tomás ; translated by Vincent Barletta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García Santo-Tomás, Enrique, author.

Contributor:

Barletta, Vincent, translator.

Standardized Title:

Musa refractada. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish fiction--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Literature and science--Spain--History--17th century.

Literature and science.

Science--Spain--History--17th century.

Science.

Spanish fiction--Classical period.

History.

Spain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 308 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Summary:

Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique Garcí Santo-Tomás unfold in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence-not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry, but among creative writers as well. While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo-Tomás tells a different story, one that reveals Golden Age Spanish literature to be in close dialogue with the New Science. Drawing on the work of writers such a Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo, he helps us trace the influence of science and discovery on the rapidly developing and highly playful genre of the novel. Indeed, García Santo-Tomás makes a strong case that the rise of the novel cannot be fully understood without taking into account its relationship to the scientific discoveries of the period. Book jacket.

Contents:

Writing on the firmament. Observations

Galileo and his Spanish contemporaries. Foundations ; Assimilations ; Inscriptions

The science of satire ; Situations ; Explorations

The refracted muse. Interventions ; Reverberations.

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226376462

022637646X

9780226465739

022646573X

OCLC:

966971629