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The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Christina H., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2016]
Colección:Studies in early modern European history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on translations
  • Introduction
  • 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'
  • 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
  • II. Conversos and the threat of sameness
  • 3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses
  • Bleeding Conversos ; Cataloguing Conversos
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Alpujarra ; Resemblance as grounds for expulsion in Don Quijote de la Mancha (1615)
  • Conclusion.