«Tirant lo Blanc» a Anglaterra. Notes de recepció literària

Abstract

This article reviews the latest contributions made to the question of the literary reception of Tirant lo Blanc, which emphasise the oblivion into which this Valencian novel fell in the centuries after its publication up to the 20th century. The repercussion of the book in England is striking. In just twenty years, at the turn of the 18th to 19th centuries, two scholars, Robert Southey and John Dunlop, and the novelist M. Lewis left full record of their reading of the book. One of these, John Dunlop, was the discoverer of the relationship between the episode of the Easygoing Widow and determined passages in Orlando furioso and Much Ado About Nothing.