The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature

J. A. Garrido Ardila is Professor of Modern Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of El género picaresco en la crítica literaria (2008), Novela picaresca en Europa, 1554–1753 (2009), and, most recently, author of Cervantes en Inglaterra, 2nd edition (2013) and editor of Textos del desastre: la última gran crisis (1898) (2013).

1. Origins and definition of the picaresque genre J. A. Garrido Ardila; 2. Lazarillo de Tormes and the dream of a world without poverty Alexander Samson; 3. Guzmán de Alfarache and after: the Spanish picaresque novel in the seventeenth century Howard Mancing; 4. The Spanish female picaresque Enrique García Santo-Tomás; 5. The Baroque picaro: Francisco de Quevedo's Buscón Edward H. Friedman; 6. Cervantes and the picaresque: a question of compatibility Chad M. Gasta; 7. The picaresque novel and the rise of the English novel: from Baldwin and Delony to Defoe and Smollett J. A. Garrido Ardila; 8. Defoe and the picaresque Brean Hammond; 9. Picaresque itineraries in the eighteenth-century French novel Jenny Mander; 10. The picaro as narrator, writer and reader: the novels of Hans Jakob von Grimmelshausen Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly; 11. Russia: the picaresque repackaged Marcia A. Morris; 12. Riches to rags: from epic to picaresque at the colonial origins of the Latin American novel Erik Camayd-Freixas; 13. The neopicaresque. The picaresque myth in the twentieth-century novel Shelley Godsland.