Ebook: Chivalry, reading, and women’s culture in early modern Spain : from Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote
Author: Triplette Stacey
- Tags: Spanish literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism, Spanish literature -- Classical period 1500-1700 -- History and criticism, Women in literature, Women -- Books and reading -- Spain -- History, Spanish literature, Spanish literature -- Classical period, Women -- Books and reading, Spain, Littérature espagnole -- Jusqu’à 1500 -- Histoire et critique, Littérature espagnole -- 1500-1700 (Période classique) -- Histoire et critique, Femmes -- Dans la littérature, Femmes -- Livres et lecture -
- Series: Gendering the late medieval and early modern world. 3.
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Amsterdam University Press. copyright 2018.
- City: Spain.
- Language: English
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The Iberian Chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. 'Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain' contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain's most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife. 'Amadís' had a notorious appeal for female Read more...