Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes
- First Published: 1605
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Mock-heroic
- Time of Work: Late sixteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Picaresque fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Villages, Books, Barbershops or barbers, Hallucinations or illusions, Sixteenth century, Spain or Spanish people, Knights or knighthood, Chivalry
- Locales: Barcelona, Spain, La Mancha, Spain
Places Discussed
*Spain. Foremost European military, political, and economic power at the end of the Renaissance—the time in which this novel is set. Spain was then politically unified as a nation but, from its days as a federation of allied kingdoms, it still retained many regional influences that are reflected in the novel. Spain’s importance as a center of trade, exploration, and conquest led it to become a watershed of diverse cultural and linguistic influences, in which Spanish, Arab, Basque, Italian, Portuguese, and French influences, among others, could be traced in...
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