| Description |
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
Studies in early modern European history
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Studies in early modern European history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Spanish literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
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Spanish literature. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lee, Christina H. Anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016 9781784991203 1784991201 |
| ISBN |
9781784996970 (electronic book) |
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1784996971 (electronic book) |
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9781784991203 |
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1784991201 |
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