Cervantes' Epic Novel - 9780802090850

Cervantes' Epic NovelEmpire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles\nAuthor(s): Michael Armstrong-Roche\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802090850, 978-0802090850\nSynopsis\nMiguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story [tel], as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers and writers alike and the later novel is now virtually forgotten except by specialists. \n\nThis study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era. At the same time it seeks to illuminate how such a lofty and solem.