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03660aam a2200397 i 4500 001 DCB32520EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 191003s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019951986 020 $a 0198832427 020 $a 9780198832423 035 $a (OCoLC)1125353242 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCL $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PQ6277 $b .M66 2020 082 04 $a 863/.2 $2 23 100 1 $a Moore, Helen $q (Helen Dale), $e author. 245 10 $a Amadis in English : $b A study in the reading of romance / $c Helen Moore. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 398 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a This is a book about readers : readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages : young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the sixteenth century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote's favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of British reader-authors such as Mary Shelley, Smollett, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries. Simultaneously an ambitious work of transnational literary history and a new intervention in the history of reading, this study argues that romance is historically located, culturally responsive, and uniquely flexible in the re-creative possibilities it offers readers. By revealing this hitherto unexamined reading experience connecting readers of all backgrounds, Amadis in English also offers many new insights into the politicisation of literary history ; the construction and misconstruction of literary relations between England, France, and Spain ; the practice and pleasures of reading fiction ; and the enduring power of imagination. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-384) and index. 505 0 $a List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index. 630 00 $a AmadiÌs de Gaula (Spanish romance) 630 07 $a AmadiÌs de Gaula (Spanish romance) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356403 650 0 $a Romances $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Books and reading $x History. 650 7 $a Romances. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01099892 650 7 $a Books and reading. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00836454 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012237.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DCB32520EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search