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

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.

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Series Title
Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, 3
Call Number
860.93522 TRI c
Publisher
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press.,
Collation
281 p.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9789048536641
Classification
860.93522
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Edition
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Subject(s)
Literary studies
Modern culture
Women Spain
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49979
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