From: Dominick Finello <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Lauer, A Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:28:52 -0500

Dear Prof. Lauer:
Kindly include in your infomail the publication of my book:
Thank you,
Dominick Finello
Brooklyn College, The City University of New York

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
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The Evolution of the Pastoral Novel in Early Modern Spain
Dominick Finello
The Evolution of the Spanish Pastoral Novel in Early Modern Spain recasts the role of the pastoral novel in the intellectual life of the Spain after the initial impact of the Dianas. Spanish pastoral novels published from 1570 onward are crucial in reconstructing Spain’s intellectual history and modernity. Pastorals of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Gálvez de Montalvo, Lofrasso, González de Bobadilla, Mercader, Corral, Suárez de Figueroa, Balbuena, and related eclogues and festival literature, will show that the genre became more than a resource for neoplatonic thinking and the idealization of country life. Still to be discovered in its entirety, the Spanish pastoral novel was a springboard for literary academies and poetic competitions renewing Castilian poetics for the essential concerns of artistic reception, the conception of innovative generic forms, the power of the writer in a hierarchical society and, ultimately, the novel’s bold new sense of literary self-consciousness.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-401-0 / MR 353)