Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy - Tudor and Stuart Black Legends

By exploring England's fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.

List of contents

List of Figures; Acknowledgments;Prologue: Translating Romance, Empire, and Spain; The Structure of This Book; Chapter One "Books of the Brave" English: Spanish Tales of Love and Arms in Translation; Chapter Two Dream Visions and Competing Dreams: Rewriting the Spanish Model in America; Chapter Three Sun Kings and Moon Queens: The Courting and Uncourting of Spain; Chapter Four Signs of England: Redcrosse Crosses the Ancient Boundary; Chapter Five Believing Bottom's Dream: Rationalizing Exploration from America to Australia; Chapter Six Unruly Readers: Anti- Spanish Sentiment and the Feminizing of Romance; Epilogue: Spanish Literature in England before Don Quixote; Appendix I: English Readership of Spanish Romance, By the Numbers; Selected Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Victoria Muñoz is a scholar of medieval and early modern literature and culture. Her specialties include Anglo-Spanish relations during the Renaissance, early modern English and Spanish literatures, early modern religious history and its intersection with European and colonial politics.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Munoz, Victoria Muñoz
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781839985461
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-546-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Anthem World Epic and Romance
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Portugal, Spain, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Literary Studies; Spain