Frederick A. de Armas Alan E. Knight ony J. Cascardi Refiguring the Hero: From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderon by Dian Fox Don Juan and the Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition ‘by James Mandrell Narratives of Desire: ‘Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women by Lou Charnon Garcilaso de la Vega and the Italian Renaissance by Dani Allegor Calderén and the deologies of History tae = Spanish Golden Age Acts of Fiction: Resistance and Resolution from Sade to Baudelaire by Scott Carpenter Grotesque Purgatory: A Study of Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Part Il by Henry W. Sullivan Spanish Comedies and Historical Contexts in the 16203 by William R. Blue Madrid 1 ‘The Capital as Cradle of Literature and Culture by Michael ‘The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel: Literature and the Left in the Wake of Engagement by Danielle Marx-Scouras Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age by Anthony J. Cascardi The Penn! Univ ia State Univ Park, Pennsy|Editors Frederick A. de Armas Alan E. Knight Refiguring the Hero: From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderén by Dian Fox Don Juan and the Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition by James Mandrell Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women by Lou Charnon-Deutsch Garcilaso de la Vega and the Italian Renaissance by Daniel L. Heiple Allegoris of Kingship: Calderén and the Anti-Machiavelian Tradition by Stephen Rupp Acs of Fiction: Resistance and Resolution from Sade to Baudelaire bby Scott Carpenter Grotesque Purgator A Study of Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Part Il by Henry W. Sullivan Spanish Comedies and Historical Contexts in the 1620s. by William R. Blue Madrid 1900: ‘The Capital as Cradle of Literature and Culture by Michael Ugarte ‘The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel: Literature and the Leftin the Wake of Engagement by Danielle Marx-Scouras Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age by Anthony J. Cascardi nthony J. Cascardi Ideologies of History eee Spanish Golden Age The Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, Pennsylvania‘At various points in the previous chapter we were ‘engagement with the example of Garcilaso de la which the literary imagination is bound intimat poetic power. Cervantes associates the problem of the social structures of caste and class, or with the “old” and “new,” but also with the issues of authority: of his central concerns is with the role of literature in the ff the cultural authority of the past. If his position on this complex this is because he is supremely aware of the (literary) modernity while remaining nonetheless sensitive £0 land prestige of the past. Here, I turn to the earlier historical the fifteenth century in order to present the complementary that Garcilaso’s verse—which Cervantes recognized as a poetic power and prestige—already reflects a deep engagement