| Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads. Barnard Mary : Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. Frederick A. de Armas is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.. |