Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Dissective Narratives 1
6. 1. Dissection and Interiority: The Case of Spain 19
7. 2. Fray Luis de Granada’s Ill-fated Defence of the Inner Man 41
8. 3. Quevedo and the Interiority of the Body Politic 68
9. 4. Cervantes’s Mechanical Interiors and Zayas’s Female Anatomies 105
10. Conclusion: Compliant Resistance 166
11. Notes 175
12. Works Cited 229
13. Index 261