Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age: Eros, Eris and Empire

by Isabel Torres

Love poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own self-image and self-definition.

This work engages with a broader evaluation of early modern poetics that foregrounds the processes rather than the products of thinking. The locus of the study is the Imperial 'home' space, where love poetry meets early modern empire at the inception of a very conflicted national consciousness,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855662655
• ISBN13: 9781855662650
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"