Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain /
Fernandez, Enrique
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain / Enrique Fernandez. - 1 online resource (288 p.) : 12 b&w illustrations
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dissective Narratives -- 1. Dissection and Interiority: The Case of Spain -- 2. Fray Luis de Granada’s Ill-fated Defence of the Inner Man -- 3. Quevedo and the Interiority of the Body Politic -- 4. Cervantes’s Mechanical Interiors and Zayas’s Female Anatomies -- Conclusion: Compliant Resistance -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe’s “culture of dissection” to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century anatomical research stimulated both a sense of interiority and a fear of that interior’s exposure and punishment by the early modern state.Examining works by Miguel de Cervantes, María de Zayas, Fray Luis de Granada, and Francisco de Quevedo, Fernandez highlights the existence of narratives in which the author creates a surrogate self on paper, then “dissects” it. He argues that these texts share a fearful awareness of having a complex inner self in a country where one’s interiority was under permanent threat of punitive exposure by the Inquisition or the state. A sophisticated analysis of literary, religious, and medical practice in early modern Spain, Fernandez’s work will interest scholars working on questions of early modern science, medicine, and body politics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442648869 9781442618893
10.3138/9781442618893 doi
Human dissection in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Self in literature.
Spanish literature--History and criticism.--Classical period, 1500-1700
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
860.9/3561
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain / Enrique Fernandez. - 1 online resource (288 p.) : 12 b&w illustrations
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dissective Narratives -- 1. Dissection and Interiority: The Case of Spain -- 2. Fray Luis de Granada’s Ill-fated Defence of the Inner Man -- 3. Quevedo and the Interiority of the Body Politic -- 4. Cervantes’s Mechanical Interiors and Zayas’s Female Anatomies -- Conclusion: Compliant Resistance -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe’s “culture of dissection” to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century anatomical research stimulated both a sense of interiority and a fear of that interior’s exposure and punishment by the early modern state.Examining works by Miguel de Cervantes, María de Zayas, Fray Luis de Granada, and Francisco de Quevedo, Fernandez highlights the existence of narratives in which the author creates a surrogate self on paper, then “dissects” it. He argues that these texts share a fearful awareness of having a complex inner self in a country where one’s interiority was under permanent threat of punitive exposure by the Inquisition or the state. A sophisticated analysis of literary, religious, and medical practice in early modern Spain, Fernandez’s work will interest scholars working on questions of early modern science, medicine, and body politics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442648869 9781442618893
10.3138/9781442618893 doi
Human dissection in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Self in literature.
Spanish literature--History and criticism.--Classical period, 1500-1700
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
860.9/3561