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Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain (2015)

Fernández, Enrique (Author)

University of Toronto Press

ISBN: 9781442648869

Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: x + 273 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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Dissection Human anatomy Science and literature Inquisitions Medicine and religion Early modern 16th century 17th century Spain Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Quevedo, Francisco

Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe's “culture of dissection” to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century anatomical research stimulated both a sense of interiority and a fear of that interior's exposure and punishment by the early modern state. Examining works by Miguel de Cervantes, María de Zayas, Fray Luis de Granada, and Francisco de Quevedo, Fernandez highlights the existence of narratives in which the author creates a surrogate self on paper, then “dissects” it. He argues that these texts share a fearful awareness of having a complex inner self in a country where one's interiority was under permanent threat of punitive exposure by the Inquisition or the state. A sophisticated analysis of literary, religious, and medical practice in early modern Spain, Fernandez's work will interest scholars working on questions of early modern science, medicine, and body politics.

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