Capturing the Pícaro in Words

Capturing the Pícaro in Words discusses the framing of the transient marginals of early modern Madrid in the literary pícaro . It compares the perceptions of constables, shopkeepers, and criminals, to those of mass-produced literary representations, and argues that the literary representations "displaced" the pícaro , assigning the marginals different places in the literary texts in order to centralise the problem of urban vagrancy. The texts "spanished" the pícaro , thus establishing the image