The Invention of the Sequel

This book proposes a new way of tracing the history of the Early Modern Spanish novel through the prism of literary continuation. It identifies and examines the Golden Age narratives that invented the sequel and the narrative genres that the sequel in turn invented. The author explores the rivalries between apocryphal and authorized sequelists that forged modern notions of authorship and authorial property. The book also defines the sequel's forms and functions, filling a major gap in literary theory in general and Peninsular literary studies in particular. Notably, the author demonstrates that the sequel develops first and foremost in Early Modern Spain, an unacknowledged and unexamined contribution to Western letters. With its panoramic scope, this study serves as an introduction to the central novelistic genres and texts of Early Modern Spain. From this foundational starting point, it also offers a general framework for understanding imaginative expansion in subsequent time periods and literary traditions. William H. Hinrichs is a founding faculty member and Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Bard High School Early College, Queens.

ISBN 1855662329   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781855662322 (What's this?)   Pages 260 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd   Published in Woodbridge Imprint Tamesis Books   Series ISSN 0969-354 Format Hardback   Series title Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias Publication date 17 Nov 2011   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 863.309

Hinrichs's analysis of the sequel is both readable and well researched, providing a wealth of information to scholars and students especially in the discussion of little known works. It is also illuminative in both the questions it raises as well as the answers it provides. RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY

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