Chivalry, reading, and women's culture in early modern Spain : from Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote / Stacey Triplette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Triplette, Stacey Elizabeth, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 3.

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--To 1500--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Spanish literature--Classical period.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Women's Lives and Women's Literacy in Amadís de Gauta p. 41

2 Women's Literacy in Beatriz Bernal's Cristalián de España p. 81

3 The Triumph of Women Readers of Chivalry in Don Quixote Part I p. 117

4 The Defeat of Women Readers of Chivalry in Don Quixote Part II p. 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789462985490

9462985499

OCLC:

1031453089