Cervantine Perversity

Elizabeth Spragins is Associate Professor in Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross, USA. Her research focuses on authority and identity in early modern Mediterranean narrative and has appeared in La corónica, ConSecuencias, Medieval Encounters, and postmedieval. She is the author of A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2023), winner of the ACLA’s Helen Tartar First Book Prize and the Sixteenth Century Society’s Robert H. Bainton Literature Prize.Sonia Pérez-Villanueva, originally from the Basque Country in Spain, is a scholar of early modern Iberian historical, literary, and visual cultures. Her research explores gender, violence, and representation across texts, images, and archival materials. She is currently working on a monograph on the violence of the Inquisition and the cultural histories of crypto-Jewish women. She is Vice Provost for Liberal Arts & Business and Professor of Spanish and Literature in Translation at Lesley University, in Cambridge, MA.Leyla Rouhi teaches at Williams College, USA. She has published numerous articles and chapters on medieval and early modern Iberia as well as Middle Eastern culture. She is the author of Mediation and Love as well as co-editor and contributing author of collected volumes on early modern Spain and gender studies. Her teaching includes Spanish language and Peninsular history, culture, literature.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Cervantes, per Verse: Misogynist Poetics of Pastoral Incels.- Chapter 3: Perverse Agency in “La Fuerza de la Sangre”: Leocadia and the Third Space.- Chapter 4: Feminists Writing with and against Cervantes.- Chapter 5: Perversion and Witchcraft in Cervantes: Deconstruction, Reversal, and Parody in the “Coloquio de los perros.- Chapter 6: The Perversity of Angelica: On Maritornes, Altisidora, and Sexual Assault in Cervantes’s .- Chapter 7:Believe Dorotea: Intersectional Sexual Violence in Don Quixote.- Chapter 8: Cervantes’s Women and the Perversity of Fortune.- Chapter 9: Preciosa as Hook(er): The Promise of Perversion in Cervantes’s “La gitanilla”.- Chapter 10: Seemingly Unimportant: Female Perversity through Elliptical Lenses.