Description:
Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance explores the lure of the Aethiopika while also seeking to articulate the reasons for Cervantes' enthusiasm for his own text.
Brief description:
Marina S. Brownlee is the Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
Review Quotes: "I believe this is an important volume that contains essays that are representative of how the reading of Cervantes' last novel continues to evolve in the twenty-first century."--Luis F. Avilés, University of California Irvine, Bulletin of Spanish Studies
"This rich collection reminds us of the dazzling, daring text that is the Persiles, full of ambiguities, discontinuities, and displacements. As these scholars forcefully argue, we ignore it at our peril."
--Barbara Fuchs, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA"Valuable and coherent in its design, this volume brings together contributions that draw on current scholarship in the field and advance our understanding of Cervantes' work."--Stephen Rupp, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto
"Innovative and insightful, Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance is a valuable contribution to scholarship on Golden Age Spain, and particularly on Miguel de Cervantes, taking scholarship on his last and posthumous novel in new and fruitful directions."--Susan Byrne, Department of World Languages and Cultures, University of Nevada, Las Vegas