{"product_id":"amadis-in-english-a-study-in-the-reading-of-romance-9780198832423","title":"Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eAmad?s de Gaula\u003c\/em\u003e, known in English as \u003cem\u003eAmadis de Gaule\u003c\/em\u003e. Famous throughout the sixteenth century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of \u003cem\u003eAmadis\u003c\/em\u003e were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e in 1605, in which \u003cem\u003eAmadis\u003c\/em\u003e features as Quixote's favourite book.\u003cem\u003e Amadis \u003c\/em\u003ethereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of British reader-authors such Mary Shelley, Smollett, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmadis \u003cem\u003ein English \u003c\/em\u003eranges from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries. Simultaneously an ambitious work of transnational literary history and a new intervention in the history of reading, this study argues that romance is historically located, culturally responsive, and uniquely flexible in the re-creative possibilities it offers readers. By revealing this hitherto unexamined reading experience connecting readers of all backgrounds, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eAmadis \u003cem\u003ein English\u003c\/em\u003e also offers many new insights into the politicisation of literary history; the construction and misconstruction of literary relations between England, France, and Spain; the practice and pleasures of reading fiction; and the enduring power of imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Moore, \u003cem\u003ePresident, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Associate Professor, Faculty of English, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHelen Moore is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and teaches English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she is currently President. She has edited the early modern romance \u003cem\u003eAmadis de Gaule\u003c\/em\u003e (Ashgate, 2004) and the play \u003cem\u003eGuy of Warwick\u003c\/em\u003e (1661) (Malone Society, 2007). She was the lead curator for the 2011 Bodleian Libraries' exhibition 'Manifold Greatness: Oxford and the Making of the King James Bible', mounted in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC. She co-edited the accompanying book, \u003cem\u003eManifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible\u003c\/em\u003e (Bodleian Libraries, 2011), and is also the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eClassical Literary Careers and their Reception\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2010). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50435021570322,"sku":"9780198832423","price":146.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_23e4e1e6-3058-4979-9043-891325f81b5e.jpg?v=1729613320","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/amadis-in-english-a-study-in-the-reading-of-romance-9780198832423","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}