 | The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature Subjects: English literature -- Spanish influences; English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Imitation in literature; Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial rivalry, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how early modern English writers borrowed Spanish literary models, triumphantly reimagining the transnational appropriation as heroic looting. Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English and directs the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies of the Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain and "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity are both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
