TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cruz,Anne
TI  - Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain
T2  - University of Toronto Romance Series
SN  - 9781442673953
AV  - PQ6147.P5 C789 1999 
U1  - 860.9/355 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Picaresque literature, Spanish-History and criticism
KW  - Spanish fiction-Classical period, 1500-1700-History and criticism
KW  - Poverty in literature
KW  - Poor in literature
KW  - Social problems in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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