Research Catalog
The man who invented fiction : how Cervantes ushered in the modern world
- Title
- The man who invented fiction : how Cervantes ushered in the modern world / William Egginton.
- Author
- Egginton, William, 1969-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
- ©2016
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-304 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 239 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world."--
- Subjects
- Spanish fiction > Classical period
- 1500 - 1700
- Spanish fiction > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Fiction > History and criticism
- Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 > Don Quixote
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 > Influence
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-225) and index.
- Contents
- Within and without -- Poetry and history -- Open and closed -- Soldier of misfortune -- A captive imagination -- All the world's a stage -- Of shepherds, knights, and ladies -- A rogue's gallery -- The fictional world.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-304
- ISBN
- 9781620401750
- 1620401754
- LCCN
- 2015014274
- OCLC
- 907965987
- Author
- Egginton, William, 1969- author.
- Title
- The man who invented fiction : how Cervantes ushered in the modern world / William Egginton.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-225) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500 - 1700
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-304