Tracing the beginnings of a bourgeois literature in Golden Age
Spain, Francisco Sanchez examines works by Baltasar Gracian
(1601-1658), major picaresque texts--particularly Lazarillo de
Tormes (1554) and Mateo Aleman's Guzman de Alfarache
(1599-1604)--and contemporary writings in which political
economists and jurists look at new economic and political
circumstances. Using the term republica to describe an economic
sphere of social life under the constrictions of both the monarchy
and the privileges of the seignorial system, Sanchez investigates
notions of person, culture, and life in these texts. He also
analyzes the formation of a private sphere of social action and the
emergence of a literary sphere to represent early bourgeois values
and sensibilities. Sanchez argues that this literature represents
culture as intellectual and verbal skills for the social and
economic advancement of a Christian but secularized person.
|Tracing the beginnings of a bourgeois literature in Golden Age
Spain, Francisco Sanchez examines works by Baltasar Gracian, major
picaresque texts, and contemporary writings in which political
economists and jurists look at new economic and political
circumstances. Sanchez argues that this literature represents
culture as intellectual and verbal skills for the social and
economic advancement of a Christian but secularized person.
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