Victoria Muñoz

Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Did Spanish explorers really discover the sunken city of Atlantis or one of the lost tribes of Israel in Aztec México? Did classical writers foretell the discovery of America? Were faeries and Amazons hiding in Guiana, and where was the fabled golden city, El Dorado? Who was more powerful, Apollo or Diana, and which claimant nation, Spain or England, would win the game of empire? These were some of the questions English writers, historians, and polemicists asked through their engagement with Spanish romance. By exploring England's fanatical consumption of these tales of love and arms as reflected in the works of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Dryden, Ben Jonson, and Peter Heylyn, this book shows how the idea of English empire took root in and through literature, and how these circumstances primed the success of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote of la Mancha in England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785273315
• Artikelnr.: 63604403

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.