Paula García-Ramírez, Beatriz Valverde, Angélica Varandas, and Jason Whittaker, editors, Weaving Tales: Anglo-Iberian Encounters on Literatures in English

Abstract

Drawing on the motif of Arachne’s tapestry in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Weaving Tales is a thought-provoking and well-curated volume that weaves together multiple interpretative strands to offer complex and unbiased perspectives on a variety of works and authors—William Blake among them—and, in doing so, interrogates fixed assumptions and establishes previously untraced connections between different texts. The subtitle, Anglo-Iberian Encounters on Literatures in English, bears witness to the remarkable international character of the book, as it gathers the work of editors and contributors based at various British, Spanish, and Portuguese universities. It is the result of a long and fruitful Anglo-Iberian collaboration initiated in the context of the project “English Literature the World: From Manuscript to Digital/New Pathways” (2018), developed at the University of Lisbon’s Centre for English Studies (Portugal), with the collaboration of the University of Jaén (Spain) and the University of Lincoln (United Kingdom).