| Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote Contributor(s): Triplette, Stacey (Author) |
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ISBN: 9462985499 ISBN-13: 9789462985490 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $129.69 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal |
| Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (0.92 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Amad s 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 Amad s 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. |
