Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World

Name: Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World
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ISBN: 9780198160052

ISBN-10: 0198160054

ISBN-13: 9780198160052

Edition: 2000

Authors: Diana de Armas Wilson

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Two sets of related issues prompt this study: the birth of the New World in European consciousness and the rise of the Cervantine novel in Spain. The conquest, exploration, and colonization of the Indies resonate through Cervantes's two novels, Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the Persiles (1617), both fortified by imperialism. Cervantes begins publishing in the 1580s, just as the might of imperial Spain turned from Europe towards the Atlantic. Twice refused emigration papers to America - which he depicts as the 'refuge and haven of all the desperate men of Spain' - Cervantes turns to fiction. His novels internalize many colonial discourses and at least four genres implicated in Spain's New…

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List price: $185.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/15/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction, Novel Genres, Novel Worlds



The Americanist Cervantes



The Novel about the Novel



The Novel as 'Moletta': Cervantes and Defoe



Some Versions of Hybridity: cacao and Potosi



'Scorpion Oil': The Books of Chivalry



Islands in the Mind: Utopography



Jewels in the Crown: The Colonial War Epic



Remembrance of Things Lost: Ethnohistory


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index