Voicing dissent in seventeenth-century Spain : : inquisition, social criticism and theology in the case of El Criticon / / by Patricia W. Manning.

• Superior document: Medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 37
• Author: Manning, Patricia.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Although the Spanish Inquisition looms large in many conceptions of the early modern 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 goals of the absolute monarchy. In contrast to some elite authors who composed readily transparent critiques of authorities and encountered difficulties with the state and Inquisition, others, like Gracián, made their criticisms covertly in complicated texts like El Criticón .

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / P. Manning -- Introduction / P. Manning -- Chapter One. Policing Printed Matter / P. Manning -- Chapter Two. (Not) Enforcing The Indices / P. Manning -- Chapter Three. Discordant Voices In The Inquisition / P. Manning -- Chapter Four. Sending Mixed Signals: Gracián And The Didactic Tradition / P. Manning -- Chapter Five. Landing On La Isla De La Inmortalidad / P. Manning -- Chapter Six. The Reader’s Journey / P. Manning -- Chapter Seven. The Jesuit Subtext / P. Manning -- Conclusion / P. Manning -- Works Cited / P. Manning -- Index / P. Manning.