Amadis in English : a study in the reading of romance / Helen Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Helen, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amadís de Gaula (Spanish romance).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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.

Contents:

List of figures

List of abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Receiving romance

3. Princely reading or a wanton book? : Amadis in Tudor England

4. The legacy of Don Quixote : Amadis in the early seventeenth century

5. The Homer of romancy-writers : Republic, restoration, and after

6. Amadis as spectacle and source : The eighteenth century

7. The genius of old romance : Amadis and British romanticism

8. Coda : Crocodile and Catawampus

Synopsis of Amadis de Gaule

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-256856-6

0-19-187103-6

0-19-256855-8