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Amadis in English : a study in the reading of romance /

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A volume on the readership and reception of Amadis de Gaula, an influential Spanish chivalric novel dating from the fourteenth century, from Tudor England to the twentieth century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Helen (Helen Dale) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Amadís de Gaula (Spanish romance)
Romances > History and criticism.
Books and reading > History.
Roman courtois > Histoire et critique.
Livres et lecture > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Poetry.
Comparative Literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.