Description: Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn adventurers to its importance for the modern novel, along with consideration of the debates that the picaresque has inspired.
Brief description: EDWARD H. FRIEDMAN is emeritus Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.
Review Quotes: A good volume that registers the progressively more flexible state of the Picaresque Studies at the Anglo-American Academy. An opportunity for new generations of scholars consider the wealth hidden beneath the monumental weight of the labels and to warn of the excellent work on which picaresque studies are based of today.-- "BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES"