Fashion and Fiction in the Early Modern Hispanic World

In the early modern period, clothing and fabrics were meant to provide visible markers of social status, gender, religion, race, and nationality. Yet dress did not just so much reflect identity as construct it. It could blur differences even as it supposedly marked them. In other words, clothes often created fictions, and fiction itself frequently focused on clothing. Drawing on literary and historical texts as well as paintings, prints, and maps, this course traces the connections between fashion and fiction in a period of unprecedented change in Spain and the wider Hispanic world. In Spanish.