Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Cervantes’s Exemplary Prologue 47
7. 2 Enchantment and Irony: Reading La gitanilla 69
8. 3 The Play of Desire: El amante liberal and El casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros 85
9. 4 Language as Object of Representation in Rinconete y Cortadillo 104
10. 5 Now you see it, now you . . . see it again? The Dynamics of Doubling in La española inglesa 115
11. 6 Soldiers and Satire in El licenciado Vidriera 134
12. 7 Exemplary Rape: The Central Problem of La fuerza de la sangre 148
13. 8 Remorse, Retribution and Redemption in La fuerza de la sangre: Spanish and English Perspectives 172
14. 9 Free-Thinking in El celoso extremeño 191
15. 10 Performances of Pastoral in La ilustre fregona: Games within the Game 207
16. 11 Cervantine Traits in Las dos doncellas and La señora Cornelia 221
17. 12 The Peculiar Arrangement of El casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros 235
18. 13 Eutrapelia and Exemplarity in the Novelas ejemplares 261
19. 14 ‘Entre parejas anda el juego’ / ‘All a Matter of Pairs’: Reflections on some Characters in the Novelas ejemplares 283
20. Appendix I: Synopses 303
21. Appendix II: Further Reading 316
22. Index 319