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Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his fictional social context? Why is the pícara so 'non-female'? What effect has her gender constitution on her fictional social context?
In terms of a gendered subject, the picaresque figure has hardly been analyzed so far. Although scholars have recognized it as a transgressive and subversive model, the 'queer' effect of the figure is yet to be examined. With regard to the categories of class, generation, topography, and gender, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels narratologically from the perspective of culture and gender theories.
Maren Lickhardt is a professor of modern German and general literature at Universität Siegen.
Gregor Schuhen is professor of Romance literature at Universität Koblenz-Landau. His main fields of research are gender studies, Spanish and French picaresque novels as well as contemporary forms of littérature engagée.
Hans Rudolf Velten is a professor of Medieval German literature and language at Universität Siegen. He is currently principal investigator in the research program (SFB) »Transformationen des Populären« and has widely published in the fields of vernacular medieval literature and cultural theory. His research interests are in literature and culture of the late middle ages and early modern period, historical anthropology, theater history of the 15th and 16th centuries, and medievalism.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Transgression and Subversion. Far from Gender? An Introduction 7
The Parent Trap: Mothers and Others in the Spanish Picaresque 17
Between Subject, Object, and Abject: Masculinities in the Spanish Picaresque 33
The Charms of Circe: Narrative Persuasion in Guzmán de Alfarache 47
Gender Trouble Without Subversion: Libro de entretenimiento de la Pícara Justina 65
Genealogy, Gender, and Genre in Alonso de Castillo Solórzano's La Garduña de Sevilla (1642) 85
Body and Gender in Till Eulenspiegel Inversions of Masculinity in the 16th century 111
Subversion and Stabilization of the Sexes by Transgression in Grimmelshausen's Courasche (1669) 131
Role Switching and Gender Marking in the Picaresque Novel 147
Picaresque Narrative and Gender Construction in Wilhelm Raabe's Lorenz Scheibenhart (1858) and Aus dem Lebensbuch des Schulmeisterleins Michel Haas (1860) 163
Masks to Mock the Light: The Authentic Pícara in Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne 181
Virile Maturity, Female Linearity, and the Transformation of the Picaresque Novel: Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders 201
Contributors 217