Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain

AvEnrique Fernandez

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-12-19
Mått:161 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Toronto Iberic
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442648869
Utmärkelser:Winner of Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association 2016 (United States)

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Enrique Fernández is a professor of Spanish at the University of Manitoba.

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‘This book is original for its analysis of anatomical research and its impact on literary production. The book will be of interest to scholars of early modern Spanish literature and culture as well as historians of science and medicine in Spain.’- Margaret Boyle (Sixteenth Century Journal vol 68:01:2017) ‘Fernandez provides an authoritative challenge to the generalist assumptions inherent in writings concerning interiority and selfhood. His new way of thinking is bound to become a vital reference source for future research.’ - Ana Duarte Rodrigues (Isis vol 107:02:2016) ‘The book is well written and researched… Each chapter is an insightful reading of a group of texts.’- Dale Shuger (Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Dissective Narratives1. Dissection and Interiority: The Case of Spain2. Fray Luis de Granada’s Ill-Fated Defence of the Inner Man3. Quevedo and the Interiority of the Body Politic4. Cervantes’ Mechanical Interiors and Zayas’ Female AnatomiesConclusion: Compliant Resistance