The Refracted Muse : Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain / Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García Santo-Tomás, Enrique, author.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds 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 as 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

I. Writing on the firmament

1. Observations

II. Galileo and his Spanish contemporaries

2. Foundations

3. Assimilations

4. Inscriptions

III. The science of satire

5. Situations

6. Explorations

IV. The refracted muse

7. Interventions

8. Reverberations

Conclusions

Notes

Works cited

Index

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

0-226-46587-X

OCLC:

1021061377