Editing Picaresque novel (section)

===Etymology===
The word ''[[Wikt:pícaro#Noun_2|pícaro]]'' first starts to appear in Spain with the current meaning in 1545, though at the time it had no association with literature.<ref>Best, O. F. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/40297681 "Para la etimología de pícaro".] IN: ''Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica'', Vol. 17, No. 3/4 (1963/1964), pp. 352–357.</ref> The word ''pícaro'' does not appear in ''[[Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' (1554), the [[novella]] credited by modern scholars with founding the genre. The expression ''picaresque novel'' was coined in 1810.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TAnheeIPcAEC&pg=PA936 ''Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary'', p. 936.] Merriam-Webster, Inc.</ref><ref>Rodríguez González, Félix (1996). [https://books.google.com/books?id=09NEuGHh2R8C&pg=PA36 ''Spanish Loanwords in the English Language: a tendency towards hegemony reversal'', p. 36. Walter de Gruyter.] ''Google Books''. </ref> Whether it has any validity at all as a generic label in the Spanish sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Cervantes certainly used "picaresque" with a different meaning than it has today—has been called into question. There is unresolved debate within Hispanic studies about what the term means, or meant, and which works were, or should be, so called. The only work clearly called "picaresque" by its contemporaries was [[Mateo Alemán]]'s ''[[Guzmán de Alfarache]]'' (1599–1604), which they considered "El libro del pícaro" (English: "The Book of the Pícaro").<ref>{{cite news
|first=Daniel
|last=Eisenberg
|author-link=:es:Daniel Eisenberg
|title=Does the Picaresque Novel Exist?
|magazine=Kentucky Romance Quarterly
|volume=26
|year=1979
|pages=203–219
|url=http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/deisenbe/Other_Hispanic_Topics/does_the_picaresque.pdf
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605211231/http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/deisenbe/Other_Hispanic_Topics/does_the_picaresque.pdf
|archive-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref>