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

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Author / Creator:	Moore, Helen (Helen Dale), author.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Description:	1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford scholarship online Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:	Amadís de Gaula (Spanish romance) Romances -- History and criticism. Books and reading -- History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14123132

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ISBN:	9780191871030 (ebook) : No price
Notes:	Also issued in print: 2020. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 4, 2020).
Summary:	This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the 16th century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote's favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of reader-authors such Smollett, Mary Shelley, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the 16th to the 20th centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries.
Target Audience:	Specialized.
Other form:	Print version : 9780198832423

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