Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter

by Ronald Paulson

A significant reassessment of current assumptions about eighteenth-century literature and art.

Seldom has a single book, much less a translation, so deeply affected English literature as the translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote in 1612. The comic novel inspired drawings, plays, sermons, and other translations, making the name of the Knight of la Mancha as familiar as any folk character in English lore.

In this comprehensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801856957
• ISBN13: 9780801856952
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"