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Love and the Law in Cervantes - González Echevarría, Roberto - Yale University Press
  • Sep 26, 2005
    320 p., 6-1/8 x 9-1/4

    ISBN: 9780300109924
    ISBN-10: 030010992X
  • Cloth: $32.00 tx
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Law
Literary Studies


Love and the Law in Cervantes

  • Roberto González Echevarría [Gonzalez Echevarria]
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The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain’s Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto González Echevarría explores the works of Cervantes, showing how his representations of love were inspired by examples of human deviance and desire culled from legal discourse.

González Echevarría describes Spain’s new legal policies, legislation, and institutions and explains how, at the same time, its literature became filled with love stories derived from classical and medieval sources. Examining the ways that these legal and literary developments interacted in Cervantes’s work, he sheds new light on Don Quixote and other writings.

Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University.

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