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Iberian Chivalric Romance
Translations and Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England
Leticia Alvarez-Recio (Edited by)
9781487508814
Hardback, published 10 February 2021
296 pages, 2 b&w illustrations
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.58 kg
"The book offers an insightful approach to the different ways in which Iberian chivalric romances permeated English literature and culture for over a century and vindicates the relevance of these translations, especially those by Munday, to the study of English Renaissance literature."
This collection of essays analyses the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation. A comprehensive introduction explains the subject, its importance for the study of early modern fiction writing in general, and the state of Anglo-Spanish literary relations at the time. Contributors consider the impact of Iberian chivalric writing on other contemporary genres – such as native English romance, letter-writing, and chronicle – and explore the influence of translations in English prose fiction from the 1590s to the mid-seventeenth century. The volume delves into the role of predominant translator Anthony Munday in the literary book market, approaching some of his most representative translations – Amadis, Palmendos, Primaleon of Greece, and Palmerin of England – and examining the contribution of these works to early modern cultural debates on sexuality, marriage, female individualism, colonialism, and religious controversy.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Iberian Books of Chivalry in English Translation Part One: Iberian Chivalric Romance in the Early Modern English Book Trade 1. The Publication of Chivalric Romances in England, 1570–1603 Part Two: Iberian Chivalric Romance in Anthony Munday’s Translation: Case Studies on Early Modern English Culture and Ideology 2. Sir Francis Drake: Conquest and Colonization in Anthony Munday’s Palmendos (1589) 3. The Portrait of the Femme Sole in Anthony Munday’s The First Book of Primaleon of Greece 4. "Such maner of stuff": Translating Material London in Anthony Munday’s Palmerin of England Part Three: The Impact of Iberian Chivalric Literature on English Literature 5. The Rhetoric of Letter Writing: The Amadís de Gaula in Translation 6. Philosophizing the Amadís Cycle: Feliciano de Silva, Jacques Gohory, and Philip Sidney 7. Portuguese and Spanish Arthuriana: The Case for Munday’s Cosmopolitanism 8. Anthony Munday, Romance Translations, and History Writing: Church Rights, Toleration, and the Unity of Christendom, 1609–1633 Part Four: The Impact of Iberian Chivalric Romance on English Prose Fiction 9. Iberian Chivalric Romance and the Formation of Fiction in Early Modern England 10. La Celestina and the Reception of Spanish Literature in England Afterword by Alex Davis Contributors
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Leticia Álvarez-Recio
Jordi Sánchez-Martí
Leticia Álvarez-Recio
María Beatriz Hernández Pérez
Louise Wilson
Rocío G. Sumillera
Timothy D. Crowley
Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon
Donna B. Hamilton
Goran Stanivukovic
Helen Cooper
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