{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-piracy-emulating-spain-in-english-literature-hardback-9780812244755","title":"The Poetics of Piracy; Emulating Spain in English Literature (Hardback) 9780812244755","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Poetics of Piracy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmulating Spain in English Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBarbara Fuchs (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812244755\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 February 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages, 1 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Piracy\u003c\/i\u003e provides compelling insight into the development of English national and religious identity as it works energetically to explore the early modern English literati's fraught relationship with Spain. Scholarly interest in transnational cultural exchange has grown in recent years, not least thanks to Fuchs herself, who has sought both to trace influence and to identify its underlying motive. This book is admirably true to those aims.\" (\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e) \"\u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Piracy\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the hegemony of a nationalist English literary history that all too often ignores the rest of Europe, particularly Spain.\" (Karen Newman, Brown University) \"Learned, smart, and original. The questions that Fuchs addresses-national models of literature, ideological rivalry, and literary appropriation-should be of interest across periods and languages.\" (Walter Isaac Cohen, Cornell University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their fascination with Spain and their debt to Spanish sources. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial competition, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how Spanish material was transmitted into English writing, entangling English literature in questions of national and religious identity, and how piracy came to be a central textual metaphor, with appropriations from Spain triumphantly reimagined as heroic looting.\u003cbr\u003e From the time of the attempted invasion by the Spanish Armada of the 1580s, through the rise of anti-Spanish rhetoric of the 1620s, \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Piracy\u003c\/i\u003e charts this connection through works by Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, and Thomas Middleton. Fuchs examines how their writing, particularly for the stage, recasts a reliance on Spanish material by constructing narratives of militaristic, forcible use. She considers how Jacobean dramatists complicated the texts of their Spanish contemporaries by putting them to anti-Spanish purposes, and she traces the place of Cervantes's \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e in Beaumont's \u003ci\u003eThe Knight of the Burning Pestle\u003c\/i\u003e and Shakespeare's late, lost play \u003ci\u003eCardenio\u003c\/i\u003e. English literature was deeply transnational, even in the period most closely associated with the birth of a national literature.\u003cbr\u003e Recovering the profound influence of Spain on Renaissance English letters, \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Piracy\u003c\/i\u003e paints a sophisticated picture of how nations can serve, at once, as rivals and resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Forcible Translation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Knights and Merchants\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Plotting Spaniards, Spanish Plots\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \u003ci\u003eCardenio\u003c\/i\u003e Lost and Found\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \u003ci\u003eCardenios\u003c\/i\u003e for Our Time\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555716919576,"sku":"9780812244755","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-poetics-of-piracy-emulating-spain-in-english-literature-hardback-9780812244755","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}