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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.
- Series:
- Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 3.
- Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bernal, Beatriz, active 16th century. Cristalián de España.
- Bernal, Beatriz.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.
- Amadís de Gaula (Spanish romance).
- Spanish literature--To 1500--History and criticism.
- Spanish literature.
- Chivalry in literature.
- Books and reading in literature.
- Romances, Spanish--History and criticism.
- Romances, Spanish.
- Women--Books and reading--Spain--History.
- Women.
- Women in literature.
- Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Women's lives and women's literacy in Amadís de Gaula
- Women's literacy in Beatriz Bernal's Cristalián de España
- The triumph of women readers of chivalry in Don Quixote Part I
- The defeat of women readers of chivalry in Don Quixote Part II.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)
- ISBN:
- 1-003-69245-1
- 1-04-079626-5
- 90-485-3664-2
- 9781003692454
- OCLC:
- 1054092829
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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