Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Eight Centuries of Portuguese Literature: An Overview
- 2 The Medieval Galician-Portuguese Lyric
- 3 Fernão Lopes and Portuguese Prose Writing of the Middle Ages
- 4 Portuguese Theatre in the Sixteenth Century: Gil Vicente and António Ferreira
- 5 The Lusiads and the Literature of Portuguese Overseas Expansion
- 6 Lyric Poetry in the Sixteenth Century
- 7 The Seventeenth Century
- 8 The Eighteenth Century
- 9 Almeida Garrett: Founder of Modern Portuguese Literature
- 10 The Transition from Romanticism to Realism: Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and Júlio Dinis
- 11 Eça de Queirós: A European Writer
- 12 Fernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation
- 13 Narrative and Drama during the Dictatorship
- 14 Women Writers up to 1974
- 15 Writing after the Dictatorship
- 16 Portuguese Literature in English Translation
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Eight Centuries of Portuguese Literature: An Overview
- 2 The Medieval Galician-Portuguese Lyric
- 3 Fernão Lopes and Portuguese Prose Writing of the Middle Ages
- 4 Portuguese Theatre in the Sixteenth Century: Gil Vicente and António Ferreira
- 5 The Lusiads and the Literature of Portuguese Overseas Expansion
- 6 Lyric Poetry in the Sixteenth Century
- 7 The Seventeenth Century
- 8 The Eighteenth Century
- 9 Almeida Garrett: Founder of Modern Portuguese Literature
- 10 The Transition from Romanticism to Realism: Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and Júlio Dinis
- 11 Eça de Queirós: A European Writer
- 12 Fernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation
- 13 Narrative and Drama during the Dictatorship
- 14 Women Writers up to 1974
- 15 Writing after the Dictatorship
- 16 Portuguese Literature in English Translation
- Index
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- A Companion to Portuguese Literature , pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009