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Don Quixote and the Subversive Tradition of Golden Age Spain by Robert K. Britton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This study offers a reading of__Don Quixote__to argue that this work was more than just hilariously comic entertainment. Rather, it belongs to a “subversive tradition” 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 to censorship run largely by the Inquisition, writers became adept at camouflaging heterodox ideas. Ironically, Cervantes’ 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. R.K. Britton draws on scholarship—including ideas on cultural authority and studies on the way__Don Quixote__addresses history, truth, writing, law, and gender—and engages with the same issues as Cervantes did.

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Author

Robert K. Britton

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782844921

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, History