Introduction: The Iberian Books of Chivalry in English Translation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction: The Iberian Books of Chivalry in English Translation 1
7. Part One: Iberian Chivalric Romance in the Early Modern English Book Trade
8. 1 The Publication of Chivalric Romances in England, 1570–1603 21
9. Part Two: Iberian Chivalric Romance in Anthony Munday’s Translation: Case Studies on Early Modern English Culture and Ideology
10. 2 Sir Francis Drake: Conquest and Colonization in Anthony Munday’s Palmendos (1589) 51
11. 3 The Portrait of the Femme Sole in Anthony Munday’s The First Book of Primaleon of Greece 74
12. 4 “Such maner of stuff”: Translating Material London in Anthony Munday’s Palmerin of England 95
13. Part Three: The Impact of Iberian Chivalric Literature on English Literature
14. 5 The Rhetoric of Letter Writing: The Amadís de Gaula in Translation 115
15. 6 Philosophizing the Amadís Cycle: Feliciano de Silva, Jacques Gohory, and Philip Sidney 137
16. 7 Portuguese and Spanish Arthuriana: The Case for Munday’s Cosmopolitanism 158
17. 8 Anthony Munday, Romance Translations, and History Writing: Church Rights, Toleration, and the Unity of Christendom, 1609–1633 181
18. Part Four: The Impact of Iberian Chivalric Romance on English Prose Fiction
19. 9 Iberian Chivalric Romance and the Formation of Fiction in Early Modern England 207
20. 10 La Celestina and the Reception of Spanish Literature in England 233
21. Afterword 247
22. Contributors 265
23. Index 267
24. Toronto Iberic 281