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Author Schmidt, Rachel Lynn

Title Critical images : the canonization of Don Quixote through illustrated editions of the eighteenth century / Rachel Schmidt
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 248 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Citations -- 1 Book Illustration as Critical Interpretation of the Text -- 2 The Book Errant: Seventeenth-Century Readings and Depictions of Don Quixote -- 3 Cervantes as Hercules Musagetes: The First Neoclassical Edition -- 4 Don Quixote Every Man: Eighteenth-Century English Illustrators -- 5 El Quixote ilustrado: Illustration and Enlightenment in the Real Academia Edition -- 6 Conclusion: Goya and the Romantic Reading of Don Quixote -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C
De -- f -- g -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- z
Summary How did the tall, lanky Don Quixote and the short, stout Sancho Panza become staple figures of Western iconography, so well known that their silhouettes are easily recognizable in Picasso's famous work? How did the novel Don Quixote, a parody of the romances of knight errantry, become a paean to the long-suffering, impotent nobility of its deluded protagonist? According to Rachel Schmidt, the answers to both questions are to be found in the way in which the novel's characters and episodes were depicted in early illustrated editions. In Critical Images Schmidt argues that these visual images presented critical interpretations that both formed and represented the novel's historical reception. Schmidt analyses both Spanish and English illustrations, including those by William Hogarth, John Vanderbank, Francis Hayman, José del Castillo, and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, and explores several of the iconographic traditions present in the illustrations: the burlesque, which focuses on the work's slapstick humour; the satirical, which emphasizes Cervantes's supposed didactic, Enlightenment message; and the sentimental, which highlights Don Quixote's purity of heart and purpose. Schmidt demonstrates that the illustrations offset the neoclassical criticism contained in the same volumes and reveals an intriguing variety of historical readings, highlighting the debates, controversies, and conflicts of interests surrounding interpretations of Don Quixote. Dealing with such topical issues as canon formation, visual semiotics, and the impact of visual media on public opinion, Critical Images will be of great value not only to literary scholars and literary historians but also to art historians and those engaged in cultural and media studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Illustrations
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 fast
Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish and Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Illustrated works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98901149
ISBN 9780773567344
0773567348
1282855190
9781282855199
9786612855191
6612855193