La Perfecta Casada With A Portrait And With An Introduction By Luis Astrana Marin
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Love Customs in Eighteenth-century Spain
Author | : Carmen Martín Gaite |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520070431 |
It was customary for the wife of a nobleman in eighteenth-century Spain to be courted fervently and seemingly forever, by a man who was not her husband. This liaison, accepted and even encouraged by the husband, was presumably platonic, though that may not always have been the case. It was carried on according to a complex, if ambiguous, code of companionship and whispered conversation. With the help of a lively blend of archival documents and literary sources, Carmen Martín Gaite admits us to the intricacies of the code and unravels its significance for the women who enjoyed the attention of a cortejo, or escort. Why was the cortejo tolerated, by society and by the woman's aristocratic family, even though it infringed traditional religious precepts? What did woman and her friend talk about at such length? Was their flirtation intellectual, reflecting the effects of Enlightenment rationalism on Spanish culture? Letters, memoirs, and travel journals as well as dramatic works of the period offer invaluable clues to the nature of these relationships, in which the woman was almost ritually adored and placed on a pedestal. The conversation, we learn, was generally frivolous, focusing on possessions and luxuries in a way that clearly signals economic change and the dawn of a material age. At the same time, the cortejo did represent a taste of symbolic liberation for women whose social lives were rigidly constrained. Clarifying details from a great variety of historical sources are presented with the urgency and fluidity of a novel in this excellent English translation -- Book jacket.
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author | : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1292 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |
The Approach to the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
Author | : Alexander Augustine Parker |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781013648380 |
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Printing in Spain 1501-1520
Author | : F. J. Norton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2010-02-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521131186 |
Professor Norton's concise history of all the presses known to have been working in Spain in the period 1501-1520.
Private Case--public Scandal
Author | : Peter Fryer |
Publisher | : London : Secker & Warburg |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Erotic literature |
ISBN | : |
The "cupboard" books in the British Museum Library.