Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance

by Helen Moore

This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance Amad s de Gaula, known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the sixteenth century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198832427
• ISBN13: 9780198832423
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"