Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís De Gaula to Don Quixote

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Triplette, Stacey, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (214 p.))

Other Title:

Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain

Place of Publication:

Routledge [Imprint] Dec. 2025 Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis Group Abingdon : Taylor & Francis Group [Distributor]

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 Spaincontests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain's most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife.Amad�s de Gaulahad 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 Quixoteand other works that situate women as readers carry the influence ofAmad�sforward 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. 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 Amad�s.

ISBN:

1-04-079036-4