Voicing dissent in seventeenth-century Spain: inquisition, social criticism and theology in the case of El Criticón

Although the Spanish Inquisition looms large in many conceptions of the earlymodern Hispanic world, relatively few studies have been made of the Spanish state and Inquisition’s approach to book censorship in the seventeenth century.Merging archival and rare book research with a case study of the fiction of Baltasar Gracián, this book argues that privileged authors, like the Jesuit Gracián, circumvented publication strictures that were meant to ensure that printed materials conformed to the standards of Catholicism and supported the goalsof the absolute monarchy. In contrast to some elite authors who composed readily transparent critiques of authorities and encountered difficulties with thestate and Inquisition, others, like Gracián, made their criticisms covertly in complicated texts like El Criticón.

• ISBN: 978-90-04-17851-9
• Editorial: Brill
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 324
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés