A volume on the readership and reception of Amadis de Gaula, an influential Spanish chivalric novel dating from the fourteenth century, from Tudor England to the twentieth century. Cover -- Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance --...
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A volume on the readership and reception of Amadis de Gaula, an influential Spanish chivalric novel dating from the fourteenth century, from Tudor England to the twentieth century. Cover -- Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Editions of Amadis -- 1 Introduction -- 'The Very Best of all the Books of this Kind' -- Amadis in English -- 2 Receiving Romance -- Reading Romance -- Gender, Genre, Class, and Age -- 3 Princely Reading or a Wanton Book? Amadis in Tudor England -- Royal Reading in Spain and France -- 'This Fine and Fruitfull Booke': The Treasurie of Amadis of Fraunce -- Beguiling Time: Reading Amadis in Scotland and England -- Perfect Poesy: Spenser, Sidney-and Shakespeare -- 'Long Live Fair Oriana' -- The Wanton Book -- 4 The Legacy of Don Quixote: Amadis in the Early Seventeenth Century -- 'Reception is All He Looks For': Don Quixote in England -- Amadis and Stuart Culture: the Art of The Heart -- 'The Dis-Repute of Amadis de Gaule' -- Fathers and Sons: Amadis on Stage -- Drolls and Gauls -- 5 The Homer of Romancy-Writers: Republic, Restoration, and After -- Amour and Adventure: Amadis on the Restoration Stage -- The Turn Against Fabling -- 6 Amadis as Spectacle and Source: The Eighteenth Century -- Don Quixote: 'The Magic Dissolved' -- Sage Urganda -- 'Useless Froth of Working Fancies' -- Tressan and 'Le Gout National' -- Rebuilding the 'Biblioteca Quixotiana' -- Ancient Romance as Modern Novel -- 7 The Genius of Old Romance: Amadis and British Romanticism -- Discovering Spain -- The Politics of Literary History (I): 'Suffering Spain' -- The Politics of Literary History (II): Sounding Elizabethan -- 'Kernels of Old Authors' -- 'That Amadis so Famed in Hall': W. S. Rose and Walter Scott -- 8 Coda: Crocodile and Catawampus -- 'What Romances Are (to Children and Others)' -- Synopsis of Amadis de Gaule -- Book I -- Book II -- Book III -- Book IV -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources.
