Amadis in English : a study in the reading of romance /
This is a book about readers, readers reading and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages, young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous thr...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.