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Images in Mind: Lovesickness, Spanish Sentimental Fiction, and Don Quijote

Images in Mind: Lovesickness, Spanish Sentimental Fiction, and Don Quijote

Paperback

Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 274

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0807892785
ISBN13: 9780807892787
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Jan 1 2002
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

Fifteenth-century Spanish sentimental fiction can be described as a palimpsest, a dense web of entangled, faded readings and a challenge to the reader. While the parameters of writing sentimental fiction and its textuality have been explored with great success, its readers and how they approached these works have been largely neglected.

Based on a reconstruction of the medical notion of love-as-sickness, premodern reading habits, and interpretive strategies, this book approaches canonical works of sentimental romance from the perspective of a medical-sensitive reader. An analysis of Don Quijote silhouetted against the subtext of sentimental romance reveals how faculty psychology and lovesickness resonate in Golden Age literature.

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