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Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain Bilingual Edition
Author(s): Richard J. Pym (Editor, Contributor), Dr Alistair Malcolm (Contributor), B. W. Ife (Contributor), Helen Rawlings (Contributor), Jules Whicker (Contributor), Professor Margaret R Greer (Contributor), Melveena McKendrick (Contributor), Trevor J. Dadson (Contributor)
- Publisher: Tamesis Books
- Publication Date: 20 July 2006
- Edition: Bilingual
- Language: English
- Print length: 190 pages
- ISBN-10: 1855661276
- ISBN-13: 9781855661271
Book Description
The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain. Early modern Spain’s insistent rhetorics of nation and kingship, of a monolithic body of shared values and beliefs, especially in respect of racial and gender stereotypes, and of a centralized and ostensibly absolutist legislativeapparatus did not map unproblematically onto the complex topography of everyday life. This volume explores the extent to which these rhetorics and the ideology they helped to construct or underpin reflected or failed to reflect the realities of social, economic, and cultural life. It sets against their typically exorbitant claims the lived, messy, and sometimes contradictory experience of Spaniards across a broad social spectrum, both at the centre and atthe margins, not just of peninsular society, but of the Hispanic world overseas. Confronting ideology were questions of economic pragmatism, executive feasibility, jurisdictional competence, and, above all, the social and political complexity of the Spain of the period. RICHARD J. PYM is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors: TREVOR J. DADSON, MARGARET RICH GREER, BARRY IFE, ALISTAIR MALCOLM, MELVEENA MCKENDRICK, RICHARD J. PYM, HELEN RAWLINGS, ALEXANDER SAMSON, JULES WHICKER
Editorial Reviews
Review
A superb collection of essays that share, among other features, an interest in challenging certain conceptions, or accepted views, of history and of literary history. Individually and collectively, the essays are enlightening and inspiring, full of ideas that whet the critical appetite. ― ARIZONA JOURNAL OF HISPANIC CULTURAL STUDIES
About the Author
MARGARET R. GREER is Emeritus Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University.
