Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World

by Irving A. Leonard

Book Overview

Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and goes on to argue that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their New World experiences. For the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520079906
• ISBN13: 9780520079908
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.