Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy

Victoria Muñoz is a scholar of medieval and early modern literature and culture. Her specialties include Anglo-Spanish relations during the Renaissance, early modern English and Spanish literatures, early modern religious history and its intersection with European and colonial politics.

• List of Figures; Acknowledgments;Prologue: Translating Romance, Empire, and Spain; The Structure of This Book; Chapter One “Books of the Brave” English: Spanish Tales of Love and Arms in Translation; Chapter Two Dream Visions and Competing Dreams: Rewriting the Spanish Model in America; Chapter Three Sun Kings and Moon Queens: The Courting and Uncourting of Spain; Chapter Four Signs of England: Redcrosse Crosses the Ancient Boundary; Chapter Five Believing Bottom’s Dream: Rationalizing Exploration from America to Australia; Chapter Six Unruly Readers: Anti- Spanish Sentiment and the Feminizing of Romance; Epilogue: Spanish Literature in England before Don Quixote; Appendix I: English Readership of Spanish Romance, By the Numbers; Selected Bibliography; Index.

“Muñoz is a must-read for all scholars of Anglo-Spanish literature and history: her analysis of the relationships between language and genre, empire and authorship is nothing short of superb.” — Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon, Honorary Faculty Research Fellow, University of Oxford