Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain

by Anne J. Cruz

In this ground-breaking study, Anne Cruz examines the treatment of poverty, prostitution, war, and other social concerns in the cultural and literary discourses of early modern Spain. This book investigates the polemics on poor relief through religious charity and secularized reform articulated not only in the Spanish picaresque canon - Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzm n de Alfarache, El busc3/4n - but also in female picaresque narratives and soldiers'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802044395
• ISBN13: 9780802044396
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher