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The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain Christina H. Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Christina H., 1973- author.
- Series:
- Studies in early modern European history.
- Studies in early modern European history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish literature.
- Social classes.
- Group identity.
- Ethnicity.
- Social groups in literature.
- Group identity--Spain--History.
- Ethnicity--Spain--History.
- Spanish literature--16th century--History and criticism.
- Spanish literature--17th century--History and criticism.
- Social classes--Spain--History--16th century.
- Social classes--Spain--History--17th century.
- Spain--Social conditions--16th century.
- Spain.
- Spain--Social conditions--17th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author examines a broad range of fiction and non-fiction works, many relatively unknown, to analyse how discourses about non-elites, conversos and moriscos, reveal anxieties in their Old Christian readers and authors.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on translations; I The usurpation of nobility and low-born passers; 1 Theorising and practising nobility; Defining hidalguía in early modernity; 'The natural hatred they harbour for hidalgos'; Notes; 2 The forgery of nobility in literary texts; Hidalgo envy in picaresque narratives; Feminising social climbers: the case of .Teresa de Manzanares; Envisioning the worst: passing downwards in Marcos de Obregón; The anxiety of sameness conquered in Don Quijote de la Mancha
- NotesII Conversos and the threat of sameness; 3 Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses; Bleeding Conversos; Cataloguing Conversos; Notes; 4 The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary texts; The Converso body identified through disgust in imaginative literature; Seeking difference as evasion of the self; Notes; III Moriscos and the reassurance of difference; 5 Imagining the Morisco problem; Misreading the Morisco problem; The reassurance of difference in post-expulsion judicial narratives; Notes; 6 Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary texts
- From loyal Moor to problematised Morisco in the second part of Guerras civiles de Granada and El Tuzaní de la AlpujarraResemblance as grounds for expulsion in Don Quijote de la Mancha (1615); Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781784996352
- 1784996351
- 9781526104021
- 1526104024
- 9781784996970
- 1784996971
- OCLC:
- 981882713
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