Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy: Tudor and Stuart Black Legends
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Did Spanish explorers really discover the sunken city of Atlantis or one of the lost tribes of Israel in Aztec México? Did classical writers foretell the discovery of America? Were faeries and Amazons hiding in Guiana, and where was the fabled golden city, El Dorado? Who was more powerful, Apollo or Diana, and which claimant nation, Spain or England, would win the game of empire? These were some of the questions English writers, historians, and polemicists asked through their engagement with Spanish romance. By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of these tales of love and arms as reflected in the works of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Dryden, Ben Jonson, and Peter Heylyn, this book shows how the idea of English empire took root in and through literature, and how these circumstances primed the success of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote of la Mancha in England. Cover Front Matter Half-title Title page Copyright information Contents List of figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1-null Prologue: Translating Romance, Empire, and Spain The Structure of This Book Chapter 1 “Books of the Brave” English: Spanish Tales of Love and Arms in Translation Tales of Love and Arms “Books of the Brave” English Amadís Rejected A Sun Knight and His Moon Princess Apollo’s Challenger Chapter 2 Dream Visions and Competing Dreams: Rewriting the Spanish Model in America México in the Renaissance Imagination Dream Visions Competing Dreams “Empires fall and rise” Chapter 3 Sun Kings and Moon Queens: The Courting and Uncourting of Spain Gloriana Triumphs Anglo-Spanish Contests Empire of Lust Conquering Lust Empire of Virtue Chapter 4 Signs of England: Redcrosse Crosses the Ancient Boundary Beyond Thule Spain Founds the New Jerusalem Romancing Spanish Supremacy Signs of England Crossing into Faerieland Spenser Claims the Red Cross for England Thule Rewritten Coda Chapter 5 Believing Bottom’s Dream: Rationalizing Exploration from America to Australia Of Poets, Lovers, and Madmen In Search of Amazons El Dorado: Gilded for a Queen England “holds the chase” Reason and Unreason from El Dorado to Australia Going to California Chapter 6 Unruly Readers: Anti-Spanish Sentiment and the Feminizing of Romance An Intellectual Black Legend Guilty Reading Quixotic Figures Epilogue: Spanish Literature In England Before Don Quixote An Early Modern Space Race Spanish Romance before Don Quixote End Matter Appendix I: English Readership of Spanish Romance, by the Numbers Selected Bibliography Index
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