The spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial Hispanic literary culture / Stephanie Merrim
- Author:
- Merrim, Stephanie
- Published:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Agile platforms of the spectacular city : the new world and the old -- Order and concert -- Balbuena's "La grandeza mexicana" and the advent of the spectacular city -- Balbuena's spectacular city and the Creole cause -- Engaging plurality : Baroque plenitude and the spectacular city in Mexico -- "To know the all" : the spectacular esoteric city in Mexico -- Babel : wild work of the new world Baroque -- Appendix. Chronology of principal works.
- Subject(s):
- Festivals—Mexico—Mexico City—History—16th century
- Festivals—Mexico—Mexico City—History—17th century
- Mexico City (Mexico)—Social life and customs—16th century
- Mexico City (Mexico)—Social life and customs—17th century
- Mexico City (Mexico)—Intellectual life—16th century
- Mexico City (Mexico)—Intellectual life—17th century
- Mexico City (Mexico)—In literature
- ISBN:
- 9780292723078 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292723075 (cloth : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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