Iberian Chivalric Romance

Translations and Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2021
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0881-4 (ISBN)

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Giving translations of Iberian chivalric Romance a centrality they have never before received, this collection explores their impact on Elizabethan culture and influence on other contemporary genres.

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.

Leticia Álvarez-Recio is a Doctor in English Philology at the University of Seville.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: The Iberian Books of Chivalry in English Translation
Leticia Álvarez-Recio

Part One: Iberian Chivalric Romance in the Early Modern English Book Trade

1. The Publication of Chivalric Romances in England, 1570–1603
Jordi Sánchez-Martí

Part Two: Iberian Chivalric Romance in Anthony Munday’s Translation: Case Studies on Early Modern English Culture and Ideology

2. Sir Francis Drake: Conquest and Colonization in Anthony Munday’s Palmendos (1589)
Leticia Álvarez-Recio

3. The Portrait of the Femme Sole in Anthony Munday’s The First Book of Primaleon of Greece
María Beatriz Hernández Pérez

4. “Such maner of stuff”: Translating Material London in Anthony Munday’s Palmerin of England
Louise Wilson

Part Three: The Impact of Iberian Chivalric Literature on English Literature

5. The Rhetoric of Letter Writing: The Amadís de Gaula in Translation
Rocío G. Sumillera

6. Philosophizing the Amadís Cycle: Feliciano de Silva, Jacques Gohory, and Philip Sidney
Timothy D. Crowley

7. Portuguese and Spanish Arthuriana: The Case for Munday’s Cosmopolitanism
Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon

8. Anthony Munday, Romance Translations, and History Writing: Church Rights, Toleration, and the Unity of Christendom, 1609–1633
Donna B. Hamilton

Part Four: The Impact of Iberian Chivalric Romance on English Prose Fiction

9. Iberian Chivalric Romance and the Formation of Fiction in Early Modern England
Goran Stanivukovic

10. La Celestina and the Reception of Spanish Literature in England
Helen Cooper

Afterword by Alex Davis

Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Toronto Iberic
Zusatzinfo	2 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4875-0881-6 / 1487508816
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-0881-4 / 9781487508814
Zustand	Neuware