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, author.

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

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 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 Amadís 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 105799

ISBN:

9789048536641

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462985490

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access