Iberian Chivalric Romance : : Translations and Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England / / ed. by Leticia Alvarez-Recio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• HerausgeberIn: Alvarez-Recio, Leticia,
• MitwirkendeR: Cooper, Helen,; Crowley, Timothy D.,; Davis, Alex,; Evenden-Kenyon, Elizabeth,; Hamilton, Donna B.,; Pérez, María Beatriz Hernández,; Stanivukovic, Goran,; Sumillera, Rocío G.,; Sánchez-Martí, Jordi,; Wilson, Louise,; Álvarez-Recio, Leticia,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Iberic
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 2 b&w illustrations

This collection of essays analyses the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation in early modern England. 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. Various contributors consider the impact of the 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 up to the mid-seventeenth century. The volume delves into Anthony Munday’s role 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Iberian Books of Chivalry in English Translation -- Part One: Iberian Chivalric Romance in the Early Modern English Book Trade -- 1 The Publication of Chivalric Romances in England, 1570–1603 -- 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) -- 3 The Portrait of the Femme Sole in Anthony Munday’s The First Book of Primaleon of Greece -- 4 “Such maner of stuff”: Translating Material London in Anthony Munday’s Palmerin of England -- Part Three: The Impact of Iberian Chivalric Literature on English Literature -- 5 The Rhetoric of Letter Writing: The Amadís de Gaula in Translation -- 6 Philosophizing the Amadís Cycle: Feliciano de Silva, Jacques Gohory, and Philip Sidney -- 7 Portuguese and Spanish Arthuriana: The Case for Munday’s Cosmopolitanism -- 8 Anthony Munday, Romance Translations, and History Writing: Church Rights, Toleration, and the Unity of Christendom, 1609–1633 -- 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 -- 10 La Celestina and the Reception of Spanish Literature in England -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- Toronto Iberic