Voicing Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Inquisition, Social Criticism and Theology in the Case of El Criticón
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17851-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

Although the Spanish Inquisition looms large in many conceptions of the early modern Hispanic world, relatively few studies have been made of the Spanish state and Inquisition’s approach to book censorship in the seventeenth century. Merging archival and rare book research with a case study of the fiction of Baltasar Gracián, this book argues that privileged authors, like the Jesuit Gracián, circumvented publication strictures that were meant to ensure that printed materials conformed to the standards of Catholicism and supported the goals of the absolute monarchy. In contrast to some elite authors who composed readily transparent critiques of authorities and encountered difficulties with the state and Inquisition, others, like Gracián, made their criticisms covertly in complicated texts like El Criticón.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manning, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
A Note on Translations
Glossary
Episodes of El Critcon Mentioned in the Text
Introduction

1. Policing Printed Matter
2. (Not) Enforcing the Indices
3. Discordant Voices in the Inquisition
4. Sending Mixed Signals: Gracian and the Didactic Tradition
5. Landing on la isla de la Inmortalidad
6. The Reader's Journey
7. The Jesuit Subtext

Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia W. Manning (Ph.D., Yale University, 2000) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas. She has published articles on a number of topics in seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture.