Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of Sentimental fiction.
In establishing the genre\'s boundaries and cultural underpinnings, Narrating Desire emphasizes the crucial link between Eastern and Western Iberian Sentimental tradit.
It traces its origin to late-medieval education in rhetoric, philosophy, and medicine as the foundation for virtuous living.
Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of Sentimental fiction