Christina H. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781784991203
- eISBN:
- 9781526104021
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784991203.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
The literary texts Lee examines in “Chapter Two” involve scenarios in which hidalgos are threatened by lowborn passers determined to do them harm, and ultimately arrive to the felicitous conclusion ...
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The literary texts Lee examines in “Chapter Two” involve scenarios in which hidalgos are threatened by lowborn passers determined to do them harm, and ultimately arrive to the felicitous conclusion that the established nobility prevails. These fictional narratives and dramas of lowborn passers allow the target reader or audience member to peek into the otherwise mysterious lives of these imagined impostors and proffer the false sense that s/he has an insight on the well-shielded secrets of their deceptive performances. Lee focuses on authors Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo’s El caballero puntual, Diego de Hermosilla’s Diálogo de la vida de los pajes de palacio, Lope de Vega’s El caballero de milagro, Quevedo’s Historia de la vida del buscón llamado don Pablos, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano’s Teresa de Manzanares, and Vicente Espinel’s Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón. She ends her discussion of social anxiety with an interpretation of the hidalgo hero in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote as a figure who initially incarnates the anxiety of sameness and eventually conquers it.Less
The literary texts Lee examines in “Chapter Two” involve scenarios in which hidalgos are threatened by lowborn passers determined to do them harm, and ultimately arrive to the felicitous conclusion that the established nobility prevails. These fictional narratives and dramas of lowborn passers allow the target reader or audience member to peek into the otherwise mysterious lives of these imagined impostors and proffer the false sense that s/he has an insight on the well-shielded secrets of their deceptive performances. Lee focuses on authors Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo’s El caballero puntual, Diego de Hermosilla’s Diálogo de la vida de los pajes de palacio, Lope de Vega’s El caballero de milagro, Quevedo’s Historia de la vida del buscón llamado don Pablos, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano’s Teresa de Manzanares, and Vicente Espinel’s Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón. She ends her discussion of social anxiety with an interpretation of the hidalgo hero in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote as a figure who initially incarnates the anxiety of sameness and eventually conquers it.
Christina H. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781784991203
- eISBN:
- 9781526104021
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784991203.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
In “Chapter Six,” Lee proposes that the maurophilic trend in literature, which romanticized the Moor before he became a Morisco, may be interpreted as evidence that Old Christians were more at ease ...
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In “Chapter Six,” Lee proposes that the maurophilic trend in literature, which romanticized the Moor before he became a Morisco, may be interpreted as evidence that Old Christians were more at ease in situations where the assigned inferior subjects carried visible signs of difference. In her readings of Historia del Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa, Morisco ballads, the first part of Ginés Pérez de Hita’s Guerras civiles de Granada, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s El Tuzaní de la Alpujarra, she finds that Spaniards may have been attracted to the figure of the noble Moor because he embodied the exemplary defeated enemy. The Moor’s conspicuous exoticism made him desirable and ultimately domesticable by the Christian Knights. Lee further explores the Old Christian attraction to the exotic Christianized subject in Cervantes’ tale of the Moriscos Ricote and Ana Félix in the second part of Don Quijote de la Mancha (1615).Less
In “Chapter Six,” Lee proposes that the maurophilic trend in literature, which romanticized the Moor before he became a Morisco, may be interpreted as evidence that Old Christians were more at ease in situations where the assigned inferior subjects carried visible signs of difference. In her readings of Historia del Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa, Morisco ballads, the first part of Ginés Pérez de Hita’s Guerras civiles de Granada, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s El Tuzaní de la Alpujarra, she finds that Spaniards may have been attracted to the figure of the noble Moor because he embodied the exemplary defeated enemy. The Moor’s conspicuous exoticism made him desirable and ultimately domesticable by the Christian Knights. Lee further explores the Old Christian attraction to the exotic Christianized subject in Cervantes’ tale of the Moriscos Ricote and Ana Félix in the second part of Don Quijote de la Mancha (1615).
