Present scholarly conversations about early European and global
modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain
and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early
modern Spain form the backdrop for ""Imperial Lyric"", which seeks
to address this shortcoming. Based on readings of representative
poems by eight Peninsular writers, ""Imperial Lyric"" demonstrates
that the lyric was a crucial site for the negotiation of masculine
identity as Spain's noblemen were alternately cajoled and coerced
into abandoning their identifications with images of the medieval
hero and assuming instead the posture of subjects. The book thus
demonstrates the importance of Peninsular letters to our
understanding of shifting ideologies of the self, language, and the
state that mark watersheds for European and American modernity. At
the same time, this book aims to complicate the historicizing turn
we have taken in the field of early modern studies by considering a
threshold of modernity that was specific to poetry, one that was
inscribed in Spanish culture when the genre of lyric poetry
attained a certain kind of prestige at the expense of epic.
""Imperial Lyric"" breaks striking new ground in the field of early
modern studies.
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