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Author García Santo-Tomás, Enrique, author.

Title The refracted muse : literature and optics in early modern Spain / Enrique García Santo-Tomás ; translated by Vincent Barletta.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 308 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Translated from the Spanish.
Previously issued in print: 2017.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Observations -- Foundations -- Assimilations -- Inscriptions -- Situations -- Explorations -- Interventions -- Reverberations.
Audience Specialized.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Translated from the Spanish.
Subject Spanish fiction -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Literature and science -- Spain -- History -- 17th century.
Literature and science.
Spain.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Science -- Spain -- History -- 17th century.
Science.
History.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Spanish fiction -- Classical period.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Barletta, Vincent, translator.
Added Title Musa refractada. English
Other Form: Print version: 9780226376462 022637646X (DLC) 2016058026 (OCoLC)966971629
ISBN 9780226465876 (electronic book)
022646587X (electronic book)
9780226376462 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
022637646X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780226465739 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
022646573X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40027346480