The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque

Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alem n, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the picaresque remains a controversial literary category, and its definition is still much contested. The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature examines the development of the picaresque, chronologically and geographically, from its origins in sixteenth-century Spain to the neopicaresque in Europe and the United States.

Author: J. A. Garrido Ardila
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/19/2015
Pages: 285
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781107031654

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2016

About the Author
Garrido Ardila, J. A.: - J. A. Garrido Ardila is Professor of Modern Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of El género picaresco en la crítica literaria (2008), Novela picaresca en Europa, 1554-1753 (2009), and, most recently, author of Cervantes en Inglaterra, 2nd edition (2013) and editor of Textos del desastre: la última gran crisis (1898) (2013).