Domus aborda ejemplos de la dramaturgia y la narrativa corta del siglo XVII espaol en tanto formas estticas que respondieron al desarrollo del mundo domstico nobiliario y urbano de la Pennsula Ibrica. Propone un recorrido por el terreno de lo habitable, incluyendo la arquitectura y decoracin interior de la casa, las dinmicas de gnero, la economa domstica y la utilizacin de los objetos, la luz y el espacio, detenindose en aspectcos que transformaron el hogar de la temprana modernidad as como tambin la imaginacin creativa de los autores barrocos. Este estudio seala que la comedia urbana, el teatro breve y la novela cortesana ilustran tanto la importancia de temas domsticos en la ficcin, como la percepcin barroca de que la casa fue un escenario nico 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 espaol y portugus en Dartmouth College.

. Noelia S. Cirnigliaro is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College.