03219nam 22006015 450 991083835300332120230124202615.00-226-46587-X10.7208/9780226465876(CKB)4340000000191143(StDuBDS)EDZ0001748001(MiAaPQ)EBC4915354(DE-B1597)524892(OCoLC)1021061377(DE-B1597)9780226465876(EXLCZ)99434000000019114320191022d2017 fg engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Refracted Muse Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain /Enrique Garcia Santo-TomasChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]©20171 online resource illustrations (black and white)Translated from the Spanish.Previously issued in print: 2017.0-226-46573-X 0-226-37646-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Writing on the firmament -- 1. Observations -- II. Galileo and his Spanish contemporaries -- 2. Foundations -- 3. Assimilations -- 4. Inscriptions -- III. The science of satire -- 5. Situations -- 6. Explorations -- IV. The refracted muse -- 7. Interventions -- 8. Reverberations -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works cited -- IndexGalileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence-not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well. While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo-Tomás tells a different story, one that reveals Golden Age Spanish literature to be in close dialogue with the New Science. Drawing on the work of writers such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo, he helps us trace the influence of science and discovery on the rapidly developing and highly playful genre of the novel. Indeed, García Santo-Tomás makes a strong case that the rise of the novel cannot be fully understood without taking into account its relationship to the scientific discoveries of the period.Spanish fictionClassical period, 1500-1700History and criticismLiterature and scienceSpainHistory17th centuryScienceSpainHistory17th centuryBaroque.Galileo Galilei.Spain.literature.optics.Spanish fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and scienceHistoryScienceHistory863.309Santo-Tomas Enrique Garcia, 573551DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910838353003321The Refracted Muse4144803UNINA