Cervantes the Poet: The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice, and the Conception of the First Modern Novel

By Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer

Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publication of Don Quijote, Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer demonstrates the cultural, literary, and theoretical significance of Cervantes' status as a late-sixteenth-century itinerant poet. This study recovers the generative literary milieus and cultural practices of Spain's most famous novelist in order to posit a new theory of the modern novel as an organic transformation of lyric practices native to the late-sixteenth century and Cervantes' own literary outlook.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 131651739X
• ISBN13: 9781316517390
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"