The Potency of Pastoral in the Hispanic Baroque

A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America. In her analysis of the verse of representative poets of the Hispanic Baroque, Holloway demonstrates how these writers occupy an Arcadia which is de-familiarised and yet remains connected to the classical origins of the mode. Herstudy includes recent manuscript discoveries from the Spanish Baroque ( Fábula de Alfeo y Aretusa , now attributed to the Gongorist poet Pedro Soto de Rojas), t