The Romantic Revival of Castilian Frontier Ballads in England: Its Precedents and Aftermath

  • María Soledad Carrasco Urgoiti
Keywords: Granada, Frontier romances, Spanish literature, Sixteenth-eighteenth centuries, Moriscos, English literature, Eighteenth-nineteenth centuries

Abstract

A review of English knowledge of Spanish literature regarding the Moriscos and Granada beginning in the sixteenth century and its evident revival in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. An analysis of the translations of certain books and the influence of authors like Pérez de Hita and the old frontier romances, and the culmination of these influences in authors like Walter Scott and Washington Irving.

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Published
2009-06-30
How to Cite
Carrasco Urgoiti M. S. (2009). The Romantic Revival of Castilian Frontier Ballads in England: Its Precedents and Aftermath. En la España Medieval, 32, 343-358. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ELEM/article/view/ELEM0909110343A
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