Title: Reading, writing, and errant subjects in inquisitorial Spain /
Authors: Prendergast, Ryan.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Spanish fiction History and criticism.; Inquisition Spain Influence.; Inquisition in literature.; Religion and literature Spain History; Religion and literature Spain History; Books and reading Spain History; Books and reading Spain History
Abstract: Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain explores the conception and production of early modern Spanish literary texts in the context of the inquisitorial socio-cultural environment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Author Ryan Prendergast analyzes instances of how the elaborate censorial system and the threat of punishment that both the Inquisition and the Crown deployed did not deter all writers from incorporating, confronting, and critiquing legally sanctioned practices and the exercise of institutional power designed to induce conformity and maintain orthodoxy. The book maps out how texts from different literary genres scrutinize varying facets of inquisitorial discourse and represent the influence of the Inquisition on early modern Spanish subjects, including authors and readers.^
Contents: Introduction: specters of control -- Texts produced, consumed, and controlled -- Frontiers of Muslim and Morisco identity -- Inscriptions of transgression, confession, and punishment -- Specters, stages, and spectacles.