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Discourses of Poverty : Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain.

In this ground-breaking study, Anne Cruz examines the treatment of poverty, prostitution, war, and other social concerns in the cultural and literary discourses of early modern Spain. This book investigates the polemics on poor relief through religious charity and secularized reform articulated not...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Toronto Press 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Charity, Poverty, and Liminality in the Lazarillo""; ""Lepers and Liminality""; ""Mid-Sixteenth-Century Debates on Poverty: Soto versus Robles""; ""Textual Tensions: The Lazarillo's Ambiguity""; ""2 The Poor in Spain: Confinement and Control""; ""Secularization and Social Containment""; ""Miguel de Giginta's Synchretic Reform Movement""; ""Cristóbal PÃrez de Herrera: Beyond Centralized Confinement""; ""3 The Picaresque as Pharmakos""
  • ""AlemÃn's Critique of State, GonzÃlez de Cellorigo's Restauración de Estado, and the Doctrine of Free Will""""The GuzmÃn de Alfarache's Defence of Mercantilism""; ""Rhetoric and the Role of the Reader in the Picaresque""; ""4 Textualizing the Other's Body""; ""Scatology and the Social Body in Quevedo's Buscón""; ""PÃcaras as Prostitutes""; ""Misogyny, Male Voice-Over, and Female Enclosure in the Female Picaresque""; ""5 From PÃcaro to Soldier""; ""The 'Other' and the Military Revolution""; ""PÃcaros' Lives, Soldiers' Tales""
  • ""The Road to Flanders: Alonso de Contreras, Estebanillo GonzÃlez, and the End of the Picaresque""""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""