Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE Expressions of Joy in Light and Shadow: Pagan Myth and Christian Gazes
6. 1 Forging Ganymede in Winckelmann’s History of the Art of Antiquity and Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza 27
7. 2 Ganymede, Narcissus, and the Joys of Teasing the Pagan in Tirso de Molina’s Religious La mejor espigadera (1614) 47
8. PART TWO Homoeroticism as Joyous Loving
9. 3 Secret Intimacies: Eternal Homoeroticism in Cervantes’s El curioso impertinente 69
10. 4 Queer Raptures Past and Present: Saint Sebastian and the Homoerotics of Martyrdom in Early Modern Spain and Italy 110
11. 5 El casamiento entre dos damas by Pedro de Navarro: Finding the Joys of Non-heteronormativity in the Shadows of an Early Modern Spanish Romance 138
12. PART THREE Celebrating Joyful Non-labelled Bodies: Defying Fixed Identities
13. 6 Joyful Visual Reinterpretations of Cervantes’s Dulcinea at the Graphic Humor Museum That Bears Her Name 159
14. 7 Gardens of Gendered Joy in Tirso de Molina’s El vergonzoso en palacio (1621) 181
15. PART FOUR Joys of Heaven and Earth
16. 8 The Laugh of the Tenth Muse 201
17. 9 “Special Friendships” in the Convent 222
18. 10 Trans-figura-d in Joy: The Sensuality of Celestial Feasts in the Pageants of Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534) 247
19. PART FIVE Finding Joy in Unexpected Places: Geographies of Sexual Exploration
20. 11 Early Global Sexualities: Antonio Pigafetta and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca 273
21. 12 (Dis)locations of Sodomy in Early Modern Spain 291
22. Contributors 311
23. Index 317