Amadis in English - A Study in the Reading of Romance

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.

List 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, books one to four


• Bibliography

About the author

Helen Moore is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and teaches English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she is currently President. She has edited the early modern romance Amadis de Gaule (Ashgate, 2004) and the play Guy of Warwick (1661) (Malone Society, 2007). She was the lead curator for the 2011 Bodleian Libraries' exhibition 'Manifold Greatness: Oxford and the Making of the King James Bible', mounted in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC. She co-edited the accompanying book, Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible (Bodleian Libraries, 2011), and is also the co-editor of Classical Literary Careers and their Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Moore , Helen Moore, Helen (President Moore, Moore Helen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780198832423
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883242-3
• No. of pages: 414
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets