Fernández, Enrique, 1961-

Anxieties of interiority and dissection in early modern Spain /Enrique Fernandez. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages_ - Toronto Iberic series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.



9781442618893


Mind and body in literature.
Self in literature.
Human dissection in literature.
Body and soul in literature.


Electronic Books.

PQ6066 / .A595 2015