Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Eros in the Age of Cervantes 1
6. Part I. Ambiguous Optics: Reframing Perception, Gender Subjectivity, and Genre Convention
7. 1. Egocentricity versus Persuasion: Eros, Logos, and Pathos in Cervantes’s Marcela and Grisóstomo Episode 33
8. 2. The Deceived Gaze: Visual Fantasy, Art, and Feminine Adultery in Cervantes’s Reading of Ariosto 53
9. Part II. Reasoning the Unreasonable: Toward a Rationale of Love
10. 3. El Greco’s and Cervantes’s Euclidean Theologies 83
11. 4. Love and the Laws of Literature: The Ethics and Poetics of Affect in Cervantes’s “The Little Gypsy Girl” 117
12. 5. Eros and Ethos in the Political and Religious Logos of The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: Anomic Characters in Cervantes 136
13. Part III. Kissing between the Lines: Blurring Racial and Sexual Norms
14. 6. Sexy Beasts: Women and Lapdogs in Baroque Satirical Verse 157
15. 7. Sexual Deviance and Morisco Marginality in Cervantes’s The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda 177
16. 8. The Black Madonna Icon: Race, Rape, and the Virgin of Montserrat in The Confession with the Devil by Francisco de Torre y Sevil 191
17. Part IV. Recasting Epic and Heroic Moulds
18. 9. For Love of the White Sea: The Curious Identity of Uludj Ali 221
19. 10. Writing a Tragic Image: Eros and Eris in Lope de Vega’s Jerusalem Conquered 230
20. 11. The Unromantic Approach to Don Quixote: Cervantine Love in the Spanish Post-War Age 247
21. Contributors 271
22. Index 275
23. TORONTO IBERIC 283