The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain

ISBN-13: 9781906540036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 273 str.

J. a. G. Ardila

Opis

Many critics regard Cervantes's Don Quixote as the most influential literary book on British literature. Indeed the impact on British authors was immense, as can be seen from 17th-century plays by Fletcher, Massinger and Beaumont, through the great 18th-century novels of Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Lennox, and on into more modern and contemporary novelists. 20th-century critics, fascinated by Cervantes, were moved to write what we now see as the classical works of Cervantes scholarship.
Through their previous publications, the eminent contributors to this volume have helped to determine the reception of Cervantes in Britain. Together they now offer a comprehensive and innovative picture of this topic, discussing the English translations of Cervantes's works, the literary genres which developed under his shadow, and the best-known authors who consciously emulated him. Cervantes's influence upon British literature emerges as decidedly the deepest of any writer outside of English and, very possibly, of any writer since the Renaissance.

Spis treści

Part I: Cervantes in British Literature and Criticism 1. The Influence and Reception of Cervantes in Britain, 1607–2005 2. The Critical Reception of Don Quixote in England, 1605–1900 Part II: Cervantes and His Translators 3. The English Translations of Cervantes's Works across the Centuries 4. Shelton and the Farcical Perception of Don Quixote in Seventeenth-Century Britain 5. Eighteenth-Century English Translations of Don Quixote 6. The Modern Translations of Don Quixote in Britain 7. Englishing Cervantes's Exemplary Novels Part III: Cervantes and the British Novel 8. The Cervantic Legacy in the Eighteenth-Century Novel 9. The Quixotic Novel in British Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 10. The American Sources in Cervantes and Defoe 11. Henry Fielding: from Quixotic Satire to the Cervantean Novel 12. Heroic Failure: Novelistic Impotence in Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy 13. Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote and the Emergence of the English Novel 14. Feminine Transformations of the Quixote in Eighteenth-Century England: Lennox's Female Quixote and Her Sisters 15. Eliot's Casaubon: the Quixotic in Middlemarch 16. Cervantes as Romantic Hero and Author: Mary Shelley's Life of Cervantes 17. Dickens, Cervantes and the Pick-Pocketing of an Image 18. Robin Chaptman's the Duchess's Diary and the Other Side of Imitation Part IV: Cervantes and the British Theatre 19. Cervantes on the Jacobean Stage 20. Last thought upon a windmill'?: Cervantes and Fletcher 21. The Utopian in Cervantes and Shakespeare 22. Quixotic Idealism Triumphant: Persiles and Sigismunda in Britain 23. William Rowley: A Case Study in Influence

O autorze

J. A. Garrido Ardila