The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature

by Barbara Fuchs

With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their fascination with Spain and their debt to Spanish sources. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244753
• ISBN13: 9780812244755
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"