Affective Geographies

Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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For Miguel de Cervantes, to narrate a Mediterranean experience is to necessarily speak of an emotional experience. Affective Geographies takes as its point of departure the premise that literature is as influential in constructing the Mediterranean as are its geographic, climatic, or economic features. As the writer with the most vast and varied Mediterranean experience of his era, Cervantes is exceptionally well-suited for the critical task of recovering the literary Mediterranean.Engaging with the interdisciplinary fields of Mediterranean studies, affect theory, and the history of emotion, Paul Michael Johnson reads Cervantes’s texts alongside the affective structures that inscribe the Mediterranean as a space of conflict, commerce, expansion, and empire. In particular, he argues that Cervantes’s writing, with its uncommon focus on the Moorish, Islamic, and North African experience, can serve to realign misconceptions about the Mediterranean we have inherited today. Affective Geographies proposes that, with a more than four-hundred-year history of impacting the hearts and minds of readers, Cervantes’s works constitute a literary longue durée, ramifying beyond fiction to alter the popular imaginary and long-term cultural landscape.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-02-19
Mått159 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Iberic
Antal sidor328
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487507510
UtmärkelserWinner of 2020 Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award The American Political Science Association Canadian Politics Section 2020 (United States)

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPart One: Casting Off1. Introduction2. Connected (Hi)stories: The Cervantine, Literary, and Affective MediterraneanThe Historical MediterraneanThe Literary MediterraneanThe Affective MediterraneanContesting a Sea of DiscoursesDeviations from Reason in a Sea of DiversityPart Two: Quixotic Passages3. Shadows of the Inquisition: Honour, Shame, and a Cervantine View of Mediterranean "Values"Anthropologies of Mediterranean Honour and ShameVisual Topographies of ShameShame Punishments and CervantesBlood Purity and the Art of Infamy in Don Quijote’s EncagementConclusion4. A Mediterranean (Tragi)comedy: Sancho, Ricote, and the Emotional Politics of LaughterGelotological GenealogiesThe Emotional Effects of Laughter, and Laughter as AffectSancho and Schadenfreude, or Courtly ComedicsFrom Sadism to SatireLaughing with Sancho and RicoteConclusionPart Three: Other Ports of Call5. Suspended Admiration: Wonder, Surprise, and Emotional Exemplarity in La española inglesaAesthetics of the UnexpectedEarly Modern Cultures of SuspensionTempering Fears, Tempering Sails 153 Ethical Solutions through AdmiratioConclusion6. Aporias of Love: Articulating the Ineffable in Los trabajos de Persiles y SigismundaBeyond SentimentalismAporias IneffabilityMaterialityConclusionAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

"Johnson is adept at distinguishing the portrayal of the inwardness and interiority of Cervantine characters from counterparts in 19th-century European realism. A highlight of the volume—one of many—is discussion of the encounter, in part 2 of Don Quixote, of Sancho Panza and the Morisco Ricote as a source of commentary on humor. Analyzing feelings is a challenge. Johnson has done his homework and far more. His approach to the Mediterranean takes the reader all over the map of criticism, metacriticism, interdisciplinarity, and the Cervantine corpus."- E. H. Friedman, Vanderbilt University (CHOICE) "This fascinating and original scholarly contribution to Early Modern literary studies – presented with an exquisite written expression – not only invites readers to reconsider many canonical works by Miguel de Cervantes, but also helps to lay the groundwork for a new direction of scholarly inquiry into a wide array of classical fiction." - Philip Allen, Midwestern State University (Hispanófila)