LEADER 04401nam 2200745 450 001 9910455818203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-03706-4 010 $a9786612037061 010 $a1-4426-7395-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442673953 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004006 035 $a(EBL)4671431 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000294082 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11212786 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000294082 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10303162 035 $a(PQKB)10747299 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600593 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255277 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671431 035 $a(DE-B1597)464401 035 $a(OCoLC)944178226 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442673953 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671431 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257141 035 $a(OCoLC)815768966 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004006 100 $a20160921h19991999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDiscourses of poverty $esocial reform and the picaresque novel in early modern Spain /$fAnne J. Cruz 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1999. 210 4$d©1999 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 225 0 $aUniversity of Toronto Romance Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-4439-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Charity, Poverty, and Liminality in the Lazarillo -- $t2. The Poor in Spain: Confinement and Control -- $t3. The Picaresque as Pharmakos -- $t4. Textualizing the Other?s Body -- $t5. From Picaro to Soldier -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aIn this ground-breaking study, Anne Cruz examines the treatment of poverty, prostitution, war, and other social concerns in the cultural and literary discourses of early modern Spain. This book investigates the polemics on poor relief through religious charity and secularized reform articulated not only in the Spanish picaresque canon - Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzm¯n de Alfarache, El busc3/4n - but also in female picaresque narratives and soldiers' tales. Emphasizing Bakhtin's notion that discursive practices must be assessed as they intersect and become textualized in history, the book also looks at this literature in relation to normative writings such as royal decrees, regulations, economic proposals, synods, and sermons. Through these discourses, authors and authorities alike debated their theories of poor assistance for both men and women, from the critique of unregulated prostitution in works such as La lozana andaluza to the control of impoverished youths through military conscription as in Alonso de Contreras and Estebanillo Gonz¯lez. The rupture of the feudal system and the economic devastation of the country precipitated a dramatic rise in the number of poor, who were increasingly perceived as delinquents by an anxious populace. The book employs Foucault's paradigms of confinement and control to study the various suggestions for the social containment of Spain's marginalized elements. Positing that the literary p¦caros and p¦caras assume the role of scapegoats for this disenfranchised social Other, Cruz further argues that the picaresque novels respond dialectically to the growing demonization of the poor in early modern Spanish culture. 410 0$aUniversity of Toronto romance series 606 $aPicaresque literature, Spanish$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSpanish fiction$yClassical period, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPoverty in literature 606 $aPoor in literature 606 $aSocial problems in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPicaresque literature, Spanish$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSpanish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPoverty in literature. 615 0$aPoor in literature. 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 676 $a860.9/355 700 $aCruz$b Anne J.$0165632 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455818203321 996 $aDiscourses of poverty$9483682 997 $aUNINA