The Poetics of Modern Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Spain

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dc.contributor.authorMiddlebrook, Leah
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-02T14:56:33Z
dc.date.available2016-09-02T14:56:33Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractFor many writers, politicians and courtiers in early modern Spain, to raise the topic of poetry was to raise the topic of masculinity. In Spain, the sixteenth century marks a particular threshold – we might consider it the “early” early modern – during which the country’s subjects and perhaps especially its ranks of elites adjusted to a new national identity: Spain under the Habsburgs ceased to be a self-contained peninsular kingdom dominated by Castile and became a seat of a pan-European and incipiently global empire. Surprisingly, perhaps, one aspect of accommodating this shift was accepting a profound revision in the ways in which relationships between masculinity and nation, masculinity and letters, masculinity and poetry, and poetry and identity were conceived of in the social and cultural imagination. A survey of the so-called “new” art composed during this period (poetry based on Italian models and forms, primarily sonnets and songs) demonstrates that writers perceived a fundamental link between poetry and some of the historical, political and social processes that were transforming Spanish codes of gender, power and privilege.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMiddlebrook, Leah. “The Poetics of Modern Masculinity in Early Modern Spain.” The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain. Ed. Milligan, Gerry and Tylus, Jane. Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2010. 143-167. Print.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20059
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCenter for Renaissance and Reformation Studies U Torontoen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectPoetryen_US
dc.subjectSpainen_US
dc.subjectPoeticsen_US
dc.subjectMasculinityen_US
dc.subjectEarly Modern Spainen_US
dc.subjectCourtieren_US
dc.subjectAcunaen_US
dc.subjectHerreraen_US
dc.subjectGarcilasoen_US
dc.titleThe Poetics of Modern Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Spainen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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