The Subversive Tradition in Spanish Renaissance Writing

A key element in one of the strands of subversion in Renaissance Spain, contends Perez-Romero (Spanish, John Carroll U., Cleveland), was a desire for communal enrichment that opposed the alienating individualism and concern over personal salvation preached by official Christianity and later by the various phases of industrial capitalism. Another element was the culture of laughter that carnivalized hell, a major instrument used by the hierarchy to instill fear. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR