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Sins of the Fathers : Moral Economies in Early Modern Spain / Hilaire Kallendorf.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kallendorf, Hilaire, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Spanish drama.
- Spanish drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
- Spanish drama (Comedy).
- Deadly sins in literature.
- Ethics in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sins of the Fathers considers sins as nodes of cultural anxiety and explores the tensions between competing organizational categories for moral thought and behaviours, namely the Seven Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments. Hilaire Kallendorf explores the decline and rise of these organizational categories against critical transformations of the early modern period, such as the accession of Spain to a position of world dominance and the arrival of a new courtly culture to replace an old warrior ethos. This ground-breaking study is the first to consider Spanish Golden Age comedias as an archive of moral knowledge. Kallendorf has examined over 800 of these plays to illustrate how they provide insight into aspects of early modern experience such as food, sex, work, and money. Finally, Kallendorf engages the theoretical terminology of Marxist literary criticism to demonstrate the inherent ambiguity of cultural change.
- Contents:
- Foreword : a note on method
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Residue
- Pride & Co.
- Greed breaks the bag
- Lusty lads and luscious ladies
- Transformation
- Loath to Call it sloth : the plus side of Pereza
- That gnawing hunger : the plus size of gluttony
- Angry young murderers
- Emergence
- Disappearing deadlies : the end of envy
- Parents and lies : the decalogue on the rise
- Conclusion : the self discovered by sin
- Epilogue : to avoid reductionism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of comedias
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9781442661028
- 144266102X
- 9781442661011
- 1442661011
- OCLC:
- 870652559
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