A History of the Spanish Novel
J. A. Garrido Ardila
Abstract
This book traces the development of Spanish prose fiction, thus providing a comprehensive and detailed account of this important literary tradition. It opens with an introductory chapter that examines the evolution of the novel in Spain, with particular attention to the emergence of the novel as a genre during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the bearing of Golden-Age fiction in later novelists of all periods. The introduction contextualizes the Spanish novel in the circumstances and milestones of Spain’s history and in the wider setting of European literature. The volume is compris ... More
This book traces the development of Spanish prose fiction, thus providing a comprehensive and detailed account of this important literary tradition. It opens with an introductory chapter that examines the evolution of the novel in Spain, with particular attention to the emergence of the novel as a genre during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the bearing of Golden-Age fiction in later novelists of all periods. The introduction contextualizes the Spanish novel in the circumstances and milestones of Spain’s history and in the wider setting of European literature. The volume is comprised of chapters presented diachronically, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in addition to others devoted to specific novelistic traditions (the chivalric romance, the picaresque, the modernist novel, the avant-gardist novel) and to some of the most salient authors (Cervantes, Zayas, Pardo Bazán, Galdós, and Baroja). This book takes the reader across the centuries to reveal the captivating life of the Spanish novel tradition and its phenomenal contribution to Western literature.
Keywords:
Spanish novel,
Spanish literature,
novel theory,
Cervantes,
picaresque novel
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199641925 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641925.001.0001 |
