Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World

by Miguel Martínez

In Front Lines, Miguel Mart nez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship. The soldiers of Italian garrisons and North African presidios, on colonial American frontiers and in the traveling military camps...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248422
• ISBN13: 9780812248425
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"