Marina S. Brownlee is the Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

• IntroductionSpace and Place Frederick de Armas, "Cervantes’ Hermetic Architectures: The Dangers Outside in Persiles IV" Michael Armstrong-Roche, "The Lucianic Gaze Novelized: The Familiar Made Strange in Persiles"Isabel Lozano Renieblas, "Chastity and Symbolism in the Persiles" Psychic DimensionsAnthony J. Cascardi, "Enigmas of Psychology in the Persiles"William Childers, "Communal Norms and Individuated Desire in Persiles y Sigismunda" Javier Patiño, "Cervantes’ Persiles and Early Modern Theories of Wonder"Visual EffectsMarta Albalá Peregrín, "Visual Genres and the Rhetoric of Violence in Cervantes’ Persiles" Patrick Lenaghan, "Illustrating Persiles: A Neoclassic Vision of Cervantes’s Last Novel" Constructive InterruptionsDavid Castillo and William Egginton, "Cervantes’s Treatment of Otherness, Contamination, and Conventional Ideals in Persiles and Other Works"Jacques Lezra, "Imaginary Labor"Marina S. Brownlee, "Interruption and the Fragment: Heliodorus and the Persiles"Works Cited

"I believe this is an important volume that contains essays that are representative of how the reading of Cervantes’ last novel continues to evolve in the twenty-first century." - Luis F. Avilés, University of California Irvine (Bulletin of Spanish Studies)