After its first known edition in 1499, La Celestina immediately became an international bestseller. The tragicomic love affair of Calisto and Melibea-brought about by the old bawd Celestina and the squalid underworld over which she presides-conjures up a social landscape dominated by anomie and change. The moral ambiguity that emanates from its realistic dialogues and urban prose style also constitutes one of its most remarkable achievements. The purpose of this edition is to facilitate access to Mabbe's translation in a modernized text. The introduction provides a succinct account of its Castilian origins and English reception as part of international networks of exchange. These networks included cultural agents engaged in the establishment of vernacular canons through the appropriation of alien literary capital. As they did so, these national traditions also sought to homogenize their respective linguistic communities into a commonwealth of speakers that could be used for the establishment of a comprehensive polity upon a common body of laws and social norms. As a forerunner of the picaresque-which also addresses the language and values that regulate the relations between self and society-The Spanish Bawd exposes the paradoxes of self-interest as the keystone for a life in common. Jose Maria Perez Fernandez is senior lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Translation at the University of Granada
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Modern Humanities Research Association
ISBN-13
9781781880401
eBay Product ID (ePID)
190103736
Product Key Features
Book Title
James Mabbe, 'the Spanish Bawd'
Author
James Mabbe
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Plays
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
412 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
576g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
James Mabbe
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Editor
Jose Maria Perez Fernandez
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