Auteur: Margaret R. Greer

An overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of Women’s Studies within the area of peninsular Hispanism. After an introductory survey of the development of women’s studies in the conte …

The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain. Early modern Spain’s insistent rhetorics of nation a …

The first comprehensive study of Calderón in English Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists – many would say the single most important dramatist – of the Spani …

Who doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested’? A p …

After an introductory survey of the development of women’s studies in the context of Spain, twenty-one chronologically ordered essays by scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico exp …

The first comprehensive study of Calderon in English Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists – many would say the single most important dramatist – of the Spani …

Who doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested’? A p …

The phrase The Black Legend was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and rel …

At the height of Maria de Zayas s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth …