Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English and directs the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies of the Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain and "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity are both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Forcible TranslationChapter 2. Knights and MerchantsChapter 3. Plotting Spaniards, Spanish PlotsChapter 4. Cardenio Lost and FoundChapter 5. Cardenios for Our TimeNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"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." (TLS) "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)

Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English and directs the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies of the Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain and "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity are both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Forcible TranslationChapter 2. Knights and MerchantsChapter 3. Plotting Spaniards, Spanish PlotsChapter 4. Cardenio Lost and FoundChapter 5. Cardenios for Our TimeNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"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." (TLS) "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)

Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English and directs the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies of the Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain and "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity are both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Forcible TranslationChapter 2. Knights and MerchantsChapter 3. Plotting Spaniards, Spanish PlotsChapter 4. Cardenio Lost and FoundChapter 5. Cardenios for Our TimeNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"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." (TLS) "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)