Contradictory Subjects
Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture

George Mariscal (Author)

9780801426049

Hardback, published 10 September 1991

248 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.454 kg

This ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by placing literary production in its socio-cultural context. Drawing on theories of cultural materialism and making use of historical analysis, George Mariscal focuses on the ways in which the problem of subjectivity is constructed in the writing of the period, particularly the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo and Cervantes' Don Quixote.