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Chivalry, reading, and women's culture in early modern Spain : from Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote / Stacey Triplette
(Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 3)
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press |
| Year | [2018] |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Notes | 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. 'Amadís' 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 'Amadís' forward into the modern novel. This book analyses many versions of the romance from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and England and tells a new story of the life, death, and influences of 'Amadís'. When imitators and translators read chivalric romance, they also read gender, harnessing the female characters of the source text to a variety of political and aesthetic purposes Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 24, 2018) |
| Authors | *Triplette, Stacey Elizabeth, |
| Subjects | BSH:Electronic books FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc LCSH:Electronic books LCSH:Spanish literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism All Subject Search LCSH:Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism All Subject Search LCSH:Women in literature BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese FREE:Spanish literature FREE:Spanish literature -- Classical period All Subject Search FREE:Women in literature BISACSH:HISTORY / General FREE:To 1700 |
| Classification | DC23:860.9/3522 |
| ID | ED00001456 |
| ISBN | 9789048536641 |