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Subject(s)

• Spanish literature—Classical period, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• Mind and body in literature [Browse]
• Self in literature [Browse]
• Human dissection in literature [Browse]

Series

Toronto Iberic Series

Summary note

Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spainbrings 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.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

Language note

English

Contents

• 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.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 1-4426-1890-6
• 1-4426-1889-2

OCLC

• 1046612868
• 1320952950

Doi

• 10.3138/9781442618893

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