Author: Edmund GaytonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Festivous Notes on the History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Author: Edmund GaytonAmadis in English
Author: Helen MoorePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192568566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the sixteenth 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 British reader-authors such Mary Shelley, Smollett, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries. Simultaneously an ambitious work of transnational literary history and a new intervention in the history of reading, this study argues that romance is historically located, culturally responsive, and uniquely flexible in the re-creative possibilities it offers readers. By revealing this hitherto unexamined reading experience connecting readers of all backgrounds, Amadis in English also offers many new insights into the politicisation of literary history; the construction and misconstruction of literary relations between England, France, and Spain; the practice and pleasures of reading fiction; and the enduring power of imagination.
The Cervanrean Heritage
Author: J. A. Garrido ArdilaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351194534
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"Many critics regard Cervantes's Don Quixote as the most influential literary book on British literature. Indeed the impact on British authors was immense, as can be seen from 17th-century plays by Fletcher, Massinger and Beaumont, through the great 18th-century novels of Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Lennox, and on into more modern and contemporary novelists. 20th-century critics, fascinated by Cervantes, were moved to write what we now see as the classical works of Cervantes scholarship. Through their previous publications, the eminent contributors to this volume have helped to determine the reception of Cervantes in Britain. Together they now offer a comprehensive and innovative picture of this topic, discussing the English translations of Cervantes's works, the literary genres which developed under his shadow, and the best-known authors who consciously emulated him. Cervantes's influence upon British literature emerges as decidedly the deepest of any writer outside of English and, very possibly, of any writer since the Renaissance."
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue des livres de ... A.M.H. Boulard
Author: Antoine Marie H. BoulardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Library ... Comprising American History, ... Indians
Author: E. A. CarréPublisher:
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Author: James Fitzmaurice-KellyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Catalogue of the Private Library of Mr. George S. Davis
Author: George S. DavisPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Spectator
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ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
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