The Western Literary Canon in Context

Cervantes's Don Quixote and the Novel (1x21)

Data de estreia: Jan 01, 2008

The modern novel was born with Don Quixote, a work shunned by the 17th-century literary establishment for its instant popularity. Survey the history of the chivalric romance and discover how critical Don Quixote was to subsequent novels that fell both inside and outside the Western literary canon.