Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. PART ONE. Objects of Luxury and Power
6. 1. Gifts for the Vicereine of Naples: The Weavings of Garcilaso’s Third Eclogue 3
7. 2. Artful Edifices and the Construction of Identity in Montemayor’s Diana and Lope’s Arcadia 31
8. 3. The Artful Gamblers: Wagering Danaë in Cervantes’ Don Quixote I. 33–35 54
9. 4. The Things They Carried: Sovereign Objects in Calderón de la Barca’s La gran Cenobia 80
10. 5. Beyond Canvas and Paint: Falling Portraits in the Spanish Comedia 99
11. PART TWO. The Matter of Words
12. 6. Book Marks: Jerónimo de Aguilar and the Book of Hours 121
13. 7. Embodying the Visual, Visualizing Sound in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Primero sueño 141
14. 8. Picaresque Partitions: Spanish Antiheroes and the Material World 159
15. 9. Francisco de Quevedo and the Poetic Matter of Patronage 181
16. PART THREE. Objects against Culture
17. 10. Transformation and Transgression at the Banquet Scene in La Celestina 205
18. 11. The Prayer of the Immured Woman and the Matter of Lazarillo de Tormes 228
19. 12. War and the Material Conditions for Suffering in Cervantes’ Numancia 253
20. 13. The Goddess, Dionysus, and the Material World in Don Quijote 277
21. 14. Dismantling Sosiego: Undressing, Dressing, and Cross-Dressing in Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache 294
22. Contributors 323