The Literature of the Spanish People
From Roman Times to the Present Day

This wide-ranging account of Spanish literature from Roman times to the present, has won praise from every quarter for its original and enthusiastic approach.

Gerald Brenan (Author)

9780521290432, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 March 1976

520 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 kg

A paperback of Gerald Brenan's account of Spanish literature from Roman times to the present, which has won praise from every quarter for its original and enthusiastic approach, its wide-ranging scholarship and elegant style. First published in paperback in 1976, this book remains a useful study of Spanish literary history.

Prefaces
1. The Roman and Visgothic periods
2. The Arab period
3. The early Middle Ages
The archpriest of Hita
5. The late Middle Ages
6. The period of the Catholic kings
7. The Siglo de Oro. Charles V and Phillip II
8. Cervantes
9. Lope de Vega and the new comedy
10. Góngora and the new poetry
11. Quevedo and Gracián
12. Calderon and the late drama
13. The eighteenth century
14. Nineteenth-century poetry and poetic drama
15. Nineteenth-century prose
16. The twentieth century
17. Postscript
Appendix
Bibliography
Glossary
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]