Paul Michael Johnson is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at DePauw University.

• 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)

Paul Michael Johnson is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at DePauw University.

• 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)

Paul Michael Johnson is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at DePauw University.

• 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)