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

Intro -- 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 Pérez de Herrera: Beyond Centralized Confinement -- 3 The Picaresque as Pharmakos -- Alemán's Critique of State, González de Cellorigo's Restauración de Estado, and the Doctrine of Free Will -- The Guzmán 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 -- Pícaras as Prostitutes -- Misogyny, Male Voice-Over, and Female Enclosure in the Female Picaresque -- 5 From Pícaro to Soldier -- The 'Other' and the Military Revolution -- Pícaros' Lives, Soldiers' Tales -- The Road to Flanders: Alonso de Contreras, Estebanillo González, 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.

Cruz examines the treatment of poverty, prostitution, war, and other social concerns in the cultural and literary discourses of early modern Spain.

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