Description: The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain.
Brief description: MARGARET R. GREER is Emeritus Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University.
Review Quotes: A superb collection of essays that share, among other features, an interest in challenging certain conceptions, or accepted views, of history and of literary history. Individually and collectively, the essays are enlightening and inspiring, full of ideas that whet the critical appetite.-- "ARIZONA JOURNAL OF HISPANIC CULTURAL STUDIES"