TY - BOOK
T1 - Canines in Cervantes And Velázquez
T2 - An Animal Studies Reading of early modern Spain
AU - Beusterien, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© John Beusterien 2013. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/4/8
Y1 - 2016/4/8
N2 - The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged. This book is the first comprehensive history of early modern Spanish dogs and it evaluates how two of Spain's most celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this period, the artist Diego Velãzquez and the author Miguel de Cervantes, radically question humankind's sixteenth-century anthropocentric self-fashioning. In general, this study illuminates how Animal Studies can offer new perspectives to understanding Hispanism, giving readers a fresh approach to the historical, literary and artistic complexity of early modern Spain.
AB - The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged. This book is the first comprehensive history of early modern Spanish dogs and it evaluates how two of Spain's most celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this period, the artist Diego Velãzquez and the author Miguel de Cervantes, radically question humankind's sixteenth-century anthropocentric self-fashioning. In general, this study illuminates how Animal Studies can offer new perspectives to understanding Hispanism, giving readers a fresh approach to the historical, literary and artistic complexity of early modern Spain.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061559098&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315570792
DO - 10.4324/9781315570792
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85061559098
SN - 9781409457138
BT - Canines in Cervantes And Velázquez
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -