Iberian Chivalric Romance

Translations and Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England

By: Leticia Alvarez-Recio (Editor)

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Hardcover | 10 February 2021

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This collection of essays analyses the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation. A comprehensive introduction explains the subject, its importance for the study of early modern fiction writing in general, and the state of Anglo-Spanish literary relations at the time. Contributors consider the impact of Iberian chivalric writing on other contemporary genres - such as native English romance, letter-writing, and chronicle - and explore the influence of translations in English prose fiction from the 1590s to the mid-seventeenth century.

The volume delves into the role of predominant translator Anthony Munday in the literary book market, approaching some of his most representative translations - Amadis, Palmendos, Primaleon of Greece, and Palmerin of England - and examining the contribution of these works to early modern cultural debates on sexuality, marriage, female individualism, colonialism, and religious controversy.

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"This book offers a much needed and long-awaited systematic exploration of a paramount literary genre of early modern fiction in England: Iberian chivalric romances. This collective volume sets the foundations of future research regarding the genre, as its chapters show manifold approaches to the subject, including literary, translation, gender, and cultural studies, as well as book and material history. These perspectives underscore the importance and complexity of Iberian chivalric romances in England. This book will prove useful to scholars working on Golden Age Iberian literature and Elizabethan and Jacobean English literature alike, whether they are interested in the Amadis and Palmerin cycle, the central role of Anthony Munday in the literary book market, or issues regarding rhetoric, gender, religion, or empire." - Daniel Gutierrez Trapaga, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

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