Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Space and Place
6. Cervantes’ Hermetic Architectures: The Dangers Outside in Persiles IV 17
7. The Lucianic Gaze Novelized: The Familiar Made Strange in Persiles 35
8. Chastity and Symbolism in Persiles 66
9. Psychic Dimensions
10. Enigmas of Psychology in Persiles 83
11. Communal Norms and Individuated Desire in Persiles 100
12. Cervantes’ Persiles and Early Modern Theories of Wonder 118
13. Visual Effects
14. Visual Genres and the Rhetoric of Violence in Cervantes’ Persiles 149
15. Illustrating Persiles: A Neoclassic Vision of Cervantes’ Last Novel 169
16. Constructive Interruptions
17. Cervantes’ Treatment of Otherness, Contamination, and Conventional Ideals in Persiles and Other Works 205
18. Imaginary Labour 223
19. Interruption and the Fragment: Heliodorus and Persiles 243
20. Works Cited 261
21. Contributors 281
22. Index 285