Amadis in English : a study in the reading of romance / Helen Moore.
2020
PQ6277
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Title
Amadis in English : a study in the reading of romance / Helen Moore.
ISBN
9780191871030 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
PQ6277
Dewey Decimal Classification
863.2
Summary
This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the 16th century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote's favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of reader-authors such Smollett, Mary Shelley, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the 16th to the 20th centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries.
Note
This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the 16th century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote's favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of reader-authors such Smollett, Mary Shelley, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the 16th to the 20th centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 4, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198832423
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