Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on the Contributors viii
5. Introduction xi
6. 1 Eight Centuries of Portuguese Literature: An Overview 1
7. 2 The Medieval Galician-Portuguese Lyric 25
8. 3 Fernão Lopes and Portuguese Prose Writing of the Middle Ages 45
9. 4 Portuguese Theatre in the Sixteenth Century: Gil Vicente and António Ferreira 56
10. 5 The Lusiads and the Literature of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 72
11. 6 Lyric Poetry in the Sixteenth Century 85
12. 7 The Seventeenth Century 97
13. 8 The Eighteenth Century 103
14. 9 Almeida Garrett: Founder of Modern Portuguese Literature 109
15. 10 The Transition from Romanticism to Realism: Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and Júlio Dinis 120
16. 11 Eça de Queirós: A European Writer 131
17. 12 Fernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation 144
18. 13 Narrative and Drama during the Dictatorship 157
19. 14 Women Writers up to 1974 168
20. 15 Writing after the Dictatorship 182
21. 16 Portuguese Literature in English Translation 202
22. INDEX 215