SPAN 250: Quixotic Narratives (HC) Fall 2015

This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers' representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - like Cervantes' Don Quixote or Shakespeare's plays - as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, three centuries later, of what we call 'literature'.

A study of the compositors who set the first part of Don Quijote

An anthology of essays on book history and related topics.

See the Table of Contents for a list of topics covered.

An analysis of the novel's context, with a particular focus on the tradition of libros de caballerías.