Spain and Its Literature: Essays in Memory of E.Allison Peers

Besides an Introduction, Bibliography and Centenary Reappraisal, eighteen original articles by respected Hispanists from Britain, Spain and the United States have been collected in this homage volume. A high proportion of articles reflect Peers’ major interests in mysticism and the Romantic Movement. Part I, From the Middle Ages to the Siglo de Oro, includes essays that deal with Francisco de Osuna’s higher memory, the Dark Night of San Juan de la Cruz, Judaeo-Islamic traditions in Luis de Leon and Miguel de Molinos’ Spiritual Guide. Part II, From the Dawn of Romanticism to the Twentieth Century, contains articles concerned with writers, works or themes as: Sanchez’s Coleccion and Percy’s Reliques, Rivas and tragedy, El moro exposito, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Victor Hugo and La Nonne sanglante. An article, dealing comparatively with Goytisolo and Zorrilla, which provides A Missing Link in the Dis-affiliation of a Post-Romantic Expatriate in Revolt? aptly concludes the volume.