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oapen-20.500.12657-499792021-07-15T07:31:59Z Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain Triplette, Stacey chivalry, romance, Don Quixote, Amadís de Gaula, gender, translation bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBD Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 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. 2021-07-13T09:33:26Z 2021-07-13T09:33:26Z 2018 book ONIX_20210713_9789048536641_2 9789048536641 9789462985490 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49979 eng Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048536641.pdf https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048536641 Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789048536641 9789462985490 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Amsterdam University Press 3 281 105799 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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