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Book SynopsisAmid 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.
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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 motive. This book is admirably true to those aims." *
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The Poetics of Piracy challenges the hegemony of a nationalist English literary history that all too often ignores the rest of Europe, particularly Spain." * Karen Newman, Brown University *
"Learned, smart, and original. The questions that Fuchs addresses-national models of literature, ideological rivalry, and literary appropriation-should be of interest across periods and languages." * Walter Isaac Cohen, Cornell University *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1. Forcible Translation
Chapter 2. Knights and Merchants
Chapter 3. Plotting Spaniards, Spanish Plots
Chapter 4. Cardenio Lost and Found
Chapter 5. Cardenios for Our Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
