Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain Contributor(s): Fernandez, Enrique (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442648864 ISBN-13: 9781442648869 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $81.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - History | Europe - Renaissance |
Dewey: 860.9 |
LCCN: 2014501269 |
Series: Toronto Iberic |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.27 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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, Marķa 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fernandez, Enrique: - Enrique Fernandez is a professor of Spanish literature in the Department of French, Spanish, and Italian at the University of Manitoba. |