Spanish Arcadia

Javier Irigoyen-GarcÍa is an associate professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His previous work, The Spanish Arcadia, is also published by the University of Toronto Press.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A country of Shepherds Race, Religion, and Culture in Early Modern SpainThe Figure of the Shepherd in Early Modern SpainPastoral Literature and Cultural SupersessionPart One. Sheep Herding and Ethnocentrism in Early Modern Spain 1 Sheep Herding and Discourses on Race Writing the History of Spanish SheepSheep Herding and Racial TerminologyThe Good Shepherd and limpieza de sangreRepresenting Laban’s Livestock 2 Rustic Culture and the Invention of the Spanish People The Adoration of the shepherdsApparitions to ShepherdsPerforming Rustic CultureDressing the ShepherdRustic Speech as Relic 3 In the Land of Pan: Pastoral Classicism and Historiography Ancient Place Names and Pastoral CartographiesInhabiting the Past with ShepherdsEtymology and Sheep HerdingPaganism and Ethnic IdentityThe God Pan and the Name of Spain Part Two. Contesting Ethnocentrism within the Arcadia 4 The Moor in Arcadia The Story of El Abencerraje in Montemayor’s La DianaReluctant Shepherds: Gaspar Mercader’s El prado de ValenciaThe Limits of Cultural Cleansing in Cervantes’ pastoral 5 Imagining the Spanish Arcadia after 1609 Jews and Gypsies in Lope de Vega’s Pastores de BelÉnNostalgia for the Moor: Jacinto Espinel Adorno’s El premio de la constanciaPastoral Hierarchies: Juan de Barrionuevo y Moya’s Primera parte de la soledad entretenida Conclusion: Pan’s Labyrinth The Pastoral Habitus: Early Modern to PresentFrom Blood Purity to WhitenessPastoral and Ethnocentrism: Future Directions Notes Works Cited

‘What makes this a great academic achievement is that it plays a big part in finding a meaningful global interpretation of the heterogeneous pastoral manifestation in early modern Spain.’- Oiol Miro Marti (Renaissance Quarterly vol 67:04:2014) ‘The Spanish Arcadia is a beautifully written, insightful and well-researched study. Irigoyen-Garcia provides a wealth of information about Spanish historiography and the fashioning of national identity.’- Bárbara Mujica (Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol 94:2017)