Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain 1st Edition by Enrique Fernandez ISBN 1442618906 9781442618909

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ISBN 10: 1442618906

ISBN 13: 9781442618909

Author: Enrique Fernandez

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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.

 

Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Dissection and interiority: the case of Spain

• The conjoined twins of Hispaniola
• The embodied immateriality of interiority
• The anxiety of a private interior
• The Spanish factor

2. Fray Luis de Granada’s ill-fated defence of the inner man

• Fray Luis de Granada’s encounter with the Inquisition
• Granada’s dissective narratives
• The compliant transparency of martyrs
• Sor María de la Visitación’s false stigmata
• Granada’s failed defence of a divine interior

3. Quevedo and the interiority of the body politic

• Quevedo’s dissective satires
• The dissection of the body politic
• The disorderly lower members
• The ambitious interiority of the privado
• Embodiment and the interiority of the body politic

4. Cervantes’s mechanical interiors and Zayas’s female anatomies

• Cañizares: the mechanical clock out of sync
• The glass licentiate: the accidental automaton
• Self-fashioning gone awry: autonomy vs. automatism
• The anatomizer of his honour in Zayas’s stories
• Female anatomy under scrutiny
• The resistance of beautiful corpses

 

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