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Barbara Fuchs - The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature (Haney Foundation Series) - 9780812244755 - V9780812244755
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The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature (Haney Foundation Series)

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Description for The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature (Haney Foundation Series) Hardcover. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial rivalry, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how early modern English writers borrowed Spanish literary models, triumphantly reimagining the transnational appropriation as heroic looting. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.

With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their fascination with Spain and their debt to Spanish sources. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial competition, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how Spanish material was transmitted into English writing, entangling English literature in questions of national and religious identity, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
Haney Foundation Series
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812244755
SKU
V9780812244755
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About Barbara Fuchs
Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English and directs the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies of the Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain and "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity are both available from the University ... Read more

Reviews for The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature (Haney Foundation Series)
"The Poetics of Piracy provides compelling insight into the development of English national and religious identity as it works energetically to explore the early modern English literati's fraught relationship with Spain. Scholarly interest in transnational cultural exchange has grown in recent years, not least thanks to Fuchs herself, who has sought both to trace influence and to identify its underlying ... Read more

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