Literature and the Image of Man

Name: Literature and the Image of Man
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This volume's predominant theme is bourgeois mentality and its historical development > \nThis volume's predominant theme is bourgeois mentality and its historical development. The works of Lope de Vega, Calderon, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, among others, are analysed within the historical framework of the decline of feudalism and the rise of the absolute regimes. Those of Moliere and Goethe are set against the background of an evolving and consolidating bourgeois society in Western Europe. > AcknowledgmentsPreface: Social Meanings in LiteraturePart I: Studies on the European Drama and Novel from the Renaissance to the Threshold of Modernity1\nThe Spanish Dramatists\nLope de Vega, 1562\u20131635\nCalderon, 1600\u201316812\nCervantes, 1547\u20131616\nMobility: Sancho Panza\nCreativity: Dulcinea\nProperty: The Gypsies\nJustice: Don Quixote3\nShakespeare's The Tempest\nThe Concept of Human Nature\nFive Themes on the Island\nSecularized HumilityExcursus A: The Tempest, Act I, Scenee