{"product_id":"objects-of-culture-in-the-mary-barnard-9781442645127","title":"Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollecting and displaying finely crafted objects was a mark of character among the royals and aristocrats in Early Modern Spain: it ranked with extravagant hospitality as a sign of nobility and with virtue as a token of princely power. \u003cem\u003eObjects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain \u003c\/em\u003eexplores how the writers of the period shared the same impulse to collect, arrange, and display objects, though in imagined settings, as literary artefacts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads. The contributors emphasize how literature preserved and transformed objects to endow them with new meaning for aesthetic, social, religious, and political purposes ­- whether to perpetuate certain habits of thought and belief, or to challenge accepted social and moral norms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Barnard,Frederick a. de Armas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442645121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442645127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.29w x 1.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2013","brand":"Mary Barnard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065597767935,"sku":"9781442645127","price":93.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50d564d3-8e69-4eb1-887e-7a909e29b6d0.jpg?v=1768676031","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/objects-of-culture-in-the-mary-barnard-9781442645127","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}