Don Quixote and the Subversive Tradition of Golden Age Spain

Don Quixote and the Subversive Tradition of Golden Age Spain

This study offers a reading of Don Quixote to argue that thisÂ work was more thanÂ justÂ hilariously comic entertainment. Rather, it belongs to a â€œsubversive traditionâ€ which constantly questioned the aims and standards of the imperial nation state that Counter-reformation Spain had become from the point of view of Renaissance humanism. In response toÂ censorshipÂ run largely by the Inquisition, writers became adept at camouflaging heterodox ideas. Ironically, Cervantesâ€™ success in avoiding the attention of the censor by concealing his criticisms beneath irony and humour was so effective that even some twentieth-century scholars have maintained Don Quixote is a brilliantly funny book but no more.Â R.K. Britton draws on scholarshipâ€”including ideas on cultural authority and studies on the way Don Quixote addresses history, truth, writing, law, and genderâ€”and engages with the sameÂ issues as Cervantes did.
Country USA
Brand Liverpool University Press
Manufacturer Liverpool University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2019-01-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781845198626

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