Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. INTRODUCTION 3
6. CHAPTER I. Erich Auerbach's Don Quixote 6
7. CHAPTER II. Cervantes' Debt to Ariosto: Form 16
8. CHAPTER III. Cervantes' Debt to Ariosto: Themes 39
9. CHAPTER IV. Imitation in Ariosto and Cervantes 55
10. CHAPTER V. Pastoral Interludes 73
11. CHAPTER VI. "Disprayse of a Courtly Life" 96
12. CHAPTER VII. Don Quixote's Readers, Don Quixote as Reader 115
13. CONCLUSION 131
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 135
15. INDEX 147
16. PRINCETON ESSAYS IN LITERATURE 151