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

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 S...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Triplette, Stacey Elizabeth, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2018.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 3.
Subjects:
Bernal, Beatriz, > active 16th century. > Cristalián de España.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616. > Don Quixote.
Amadís de Gaula (Spanish romance)
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.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009586797206719
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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