Goodbye Eros

A surfeit of tropes about love exhausted Spanish literature in the age of Cervantes. This book provides a pioneering look at the rich array of ways in which Spanish Golden Age authors responded by crafting a new literary aesthetic.

Ana Maria Laguna is an associate professor of Spanish at Rutgers University-Camden.
Beusterien John :

John Beusterien is a professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University.

"The chapters gathered in Goodbye Eros: Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes contribute a fresh approach to the critical dialogue as they highlight still contested issues pertaining to race, religion, politics, ethics, and sexuality, and further illustrate Cervantes’ universal and timeless relevance."

Sherry Velasco:

"In looking back on Cervantine cultural criticism, we find that there is an unspoken invitation to consider how our current generation of Cervantistas will be evaluated by scholars later in the twenty-first century. In the meantime, we can appreciate the creative and innovative approaches in Goodbye Eros, knowing that these erudite essays will surely inspire similarly provocative work in the future."

Luis Avilés, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine:

"Goodbye Eros is a fundamental contribution to the field. The central objectives, centered on love, visual representation, as well as race and gender issues, are well developed and achieved. This book will be of interest to all scholars of early modern Spain, especially those teaching courses on Cervantes and love, or more generally, sexuality and desire."

Robert Bayliss, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas:

"Goodbye Eros offers a welcome critical focus, as eros as understood in this period is studied less often in recent years than it should be, given its central role in the period’s literature."