Writers on the market
Subtitle: consuming literature in early seventeenth-century Spain
By: Donald Gilbert-Santamaria.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lewisburg, [PA.]
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Authors and publishers -- Spain -- History -- 17th century.; Literary publishing -- Spain -- History -- 17th century.; Authorship -- Marketing.; Authors and readers -- Spain -- History -- 17th century.; Literature and society -- Spain.
Description: "The beginning of the seventeenth century in Spain marked a rapid rise in the commercial market for cultural production. This work examines the evolution of the commercial market as reflected in the maturation of two genres: the public theater and the novel. Through a comparative analysis of the playwright Lope de Vega and the novelists Mateo Aleman and Miguel de Cervantes, this study explores the new poetic principles, both implicit and explicit, that accompany the rise of commercialized literature and argues that the logic of classical economic theory became internalized within the poetic structure of these two genres."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264) and index.