Spain of Fernando de Rojas: The Intellectual and Social Landscape of La Celestina

by Stephen Gilman

Book Overview

As a major piece of historical detective work. Stephen Gilman's "La Celestina" and the Spain of Fernando de Rojas adds a new dimension to critical studies of the fifteenth-century masterpiece. Using the text of La Celestina as well as public and private archives in Spain, Mr. Oilman builds up a vivid sense of the man behind the dialogue and establishes Fernando de Rojas indisputably as its author-a figure whom critics, while ranking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069161962X
• ISBN13: 9780691619620
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"