Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind

Isabel Jaén is Professor of Spanish at Portland State University and holds PhDs from Purdue University and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. She is co-editor of Cognitive Literary Studies (University of Texas Press, 2012), Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Self, Other, and Context in Early Modern Spain (Juan de la Cuesta, 2017).Julien Jacques-Simon is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University East. He is co-editor of Cognitive Literary Studies (University of Texas Press, 2012), Cognitive Cervantes (special issue of the Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Spring 2012), Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Self, Other, and Context in Early Modern Spain (Juan de la Cuesta, 2017).

• Foreword: Historicizing Cognitive Approaches to CervantesHoward MancingIntroduction: A Cognitive-Historicist Approach to Cervantes’s WorkIsabel Jaén and Julien Jacques-SimonSection I – Views of the Mind in Early Modern SpainChapter 1 – Spanish Brain Science and Philosophy of Mind in the Time of Cervantes: Three Seminal ThinkersAntonio Martín AraguzSection II – Feeling, Thinking, and Remembering in Humans and BrutesChapter 2 – Emotion and Human Development in Cervantes’s Don Quijote: The Case of Sancho PanzaIsabel JaénChapter 3 – Aging, Emotion, and Cognition: El viejo zeloso and Early Modern ThoughtElena CarreraChapter 4 – Human Thinking about Thinking Animals in the Early Modern Spanish and Spanish American WorldSteven WagschalChapter 5 – Wit, Imagination, and the Goat: The Untrodden Paths of Literary Creation in Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Huarte’s Examen de ingeniosChristine OrobitgChapter 6 – Cervantes and the Mother of the Muses: Views of Memory in Early Modern SpainJulia DomínguezSection III – Altered Minds: Causes, Effects, and RemediesChapter 7 – Melancholic Consciousness: Cervantes’s Contribution to Early Modern Views of Melancholy and the Emergence of the Fictional MindIsabel Jaén and Julien Jacques-SimonChapter 8 – Mind-Altering Agents in Cervantes’s Work: Regarding His Sources on PharmacologyFrancisco López-Muñoz and Cecilio ÁlamoChapter 9 – Don Quijote and Cervantes’s Knowledge of Neurological DisordersJosé-Alberto Palma, Fermín Palma, and Julien Jacques-Simon