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Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel
In the sixteenth century, the picaresque novel introduced marginal figures (wanderers, beggars and thieves) as the protagonists of elaborate prose narratives, thus appearing to give a voice to hitherto unrepresented social types. This raises several questions as to the referentiality of the picaresque text, pertinent both to historians and literary scholars alike. Microhistory can help investigate this referentiality of the picaresque text, by revealing how particular historical agents perceived marginals and marginality, and juxtaposing these agent perspectives to the literary representation. Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel is the first publication to combine scholarship on the picare...
400 años de The Changeling (Thomas Middleton y William Rowley, 1622)
Con motivo del 400 aniversario de The Changeling (Thomas Middleton y William Rowley, 1622), obra teatral renacentista inglesa insólitamente localizada en Alicante, se publica este volumen que recopila textos escritos para la ocasión por académicos extranjeros y españoles especializados tanto en esta obra teatral y su periodo literario inglés como en el contexto alicantino/español de la época (tanto social como literario) en el que argumentalmente se sitúa y, finalmente, en su perspectiva traductológica. Estos textos son el resultado de unas conferencias y ponencias presentadas en unas jornadas que, con el mismo título que el de este libro, se celebraron en la Universidad de Alicante los días 16 y 17 de noviembre de 2022.
Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)
Iberian Books II & III presents an indispensable foundational listing of everything known to have been published in Spain, Portugal and the New World, or of items printed in Spanish or Portuguese elsewhere, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on library catalogues, specialist bibliographies and studies, as well as auction catalogue records, Iberian Books lists 45,000 items, and the locations of some 215,000 copies surviving in 1,800 collections worldwide. These volumes offer a powerful research tool which will appeal to researchers, librarians and to the book selling and collecting communities. They will prove invaluable to anyone with a research interest in the literat...
