Anthony J. Cascardi is the director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and a professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley.

‘Cascardi provides illuminating commentary on the overlooked influence of political philosophy upon Cervantes’s - Barbara Simerka (Renaissance Quarterly; vol 65:03:2012)

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction 2. What the Canon Said3. Views from Nowhere4. Controversies5. The Practice of Theory6. Politics Brought Down to Earth7. Imagining the Nation8. Civil Society, Virtue, and the Pursuit of Happiness9. Free Speech?NotesIndex

Anthony J. Cascardi is the director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and a professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley.

‘Cascardi provides illuminating commentary on the overlooked influence of political philosophy upon Cervantes’s - Barbara Simerka (Renaissance Quarterly; vol 65:03:2012)

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction 2. What the Canon Said3. Views from Nowhere4. Controversies5. The Practice of Theory6. Politics Brought Down to Earth7. Imagining the Nation8. Civil Society, Virtue, and the Pursuit of Happiness9. Free Speech?NotesIndex

Anthony J. Cascardi is the director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and a professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley.

‘Cascardi provides illuminating commentary on the overlooked influence of political philosophy upon Cervantes’s - Barbara Simerka (Renaissance Quarterly; vol 65:03:2012)

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction 2. What the Canon Said3. Views from Nowhere4. Controversies5. The Practice of Theory6. Politics Brought Down to Earth7. Imagining the Nation8. Civil Society, Virtue, and the Pursuit of Happiness9. Free Speech?NotesIndex