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Record Nr.

UNINA9910491848403321

Autore

Triplette Stacey Elizabeth

Titolo

Chivalry, reading, and women's culture in early modern Spain : from Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote / / Stacey Triplette

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2018

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2018

ISBN

90-485-3664-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; ; 3

Disciplina

860.9/3522

Soggetti

Spanish literature - To 1500 - History and criticism

Chivalry in literature

Books and reading in literature

Romances, Spanish - History and criticism

Women - Books and reading - Spain - History

Women in literature

Spanish literature - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Spain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Women's lives and women's literacy in Amadís de Gaula -- Women's literacy in Beatriz Bernal's Cristalián de España -- The triumph of women readers of chivalry in Don Quixote Part I -- The defeat of women readers of chivalry in Don Quixote Part II.

Sommario/riassunto

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 de Gaula had a notorious appeal for female audiences, and the early modern authors who borrowed from it varied in their reactions to its large cast of literate female characters. Don



Quixote and other works that situate women as readers carry the influence of Amadís forward into the modern novel. When early modern authors read chivalric romance, they also read gender, harnessing the female characters of the source text to a variety of political and aesthetic purposes.