J.A.G. Ardila, Ed. The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain

J.A.G. Ardila, ed. The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain. London: Legenda (Maney), 2009. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-1-906540-03-6. As the volume's subtitle suggests, the collected essays of The Cervantean Heritage cover a large swath of topics; the contributions range from chronologically catalogued descriptive criticism of English translations of Cervantes' major works to comparative analyses of Cervantes' prose with British literature from early modern drama to the modern novel. This large range of analytical perspectives and foci means that the text is likely to be of interest to scholars in multiple fields of the humanities, from critics of eighteenth-century British prose by women to cultural historians of Spanish-English relations after the Golden Age.