Domus aborda ejemplos de la dramaturgia y la narrativa corta del siglo XVII espanol en tanto formas esteticas que respondieron al desarrollo del mundo domestico nobiliario y urbano de la Peninsula Iberica. Propone un recorrido por el terreno de lo habitable, incluyendo la arquitectura y decoracion interior de la casa, las dinamicas de genero, la economia domestica y la utilizacion de los objetos, la luz y el espacio, deteniendose en aspectcos que transformaron el hogar de la temprana modernidad asi como tambien la imaginacion creativa de los autores barrocos. Este estudio senala que la comedia urbana, el teatro breve y la novela cortesana ilustran tanto la importancia de temas domesticos en la ficcion, como la percepcion barroca de que la casa fue un escenario unico para teatralizar la domesticidad. Domus delves into examples of the drama and short fiction of seventeenth-century Spanish as aesthetic forms that responded to the development of the nobility and urban domestic world of the Iberian Peninsula. The book offers a journey through the realm of the habitable, including architecture and the interior decoration of the house; gender dynamics; domestic economy and the use of objects; and light and space, stopping along the way to consider the historical aspects that transformed the early modern home as well as the creative imagination of the authors of the Baroque. This study shows that urban comedy, theater and the courtly novel illustrate both the importance of domestic issues in fiction and the Baroque perception that the house was a unique stage for dramatizing domesticity. Noelia S. Cirnigliaro es Profesora Asociada en el Departamento de espanol y portugues en Dartmouth College. . Noelia S. Cirnigliaro is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College.

Author Biography

Assistant Professor of Spanish, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA