Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain : From Amadis de Gaula to Don Quixote Hardback
by Stacey Triplette
Part of the Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World series
Hardback
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The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history.
Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain’s most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife.
AmadÃs de Gaula had a notorious appeal for female audiences, and the early modern authors who borrowed from it varied in their reactions to its large cast of literate female characters.
Don Quixote and other works that situate women as readers carry the influence of AmadÃs forward into the modern novel.
When early modern authors read chivalric romance, they also read gender, harnessing the female characters of the source text to a variety of political and aesthetic purposes.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, 4 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:07/08/2018
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- ISBN:9789462985490
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, 4 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:07/08/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9789462985490