Goodbye Eros: Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes

Introduction: Eros in the Age of Cervantes
Ana Maria Laguna, Rutgers University and John Beusterien, Texas Tech University

Part I. Amorous Optics: Reframing Perception, Gender Subjectivity, and Genre Convention

1. Egocentricity versus Persuasion: Eros, Logos, and Pathos in Cervantes’s Marcela and Grisóstomo Episode
Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College and Ana Maria Laguna, Rutgers University

2. The Deceived Gaze: Visual Fantasy, Art, and Feminine Adultery in Cervantes’s Reading of Ariosto
Mercedes Alcalá Galán, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Part II. Reasoning the Unreasonable: Towards a Rationale of Love

3. El Greco and Cervantes’s Euclidean Theologies
Eric Clifford Graf, Francisco Marroquin University

4. Love and the Laws of Literature: The Ethics and Poetics of Affect in Cervantes’s "The Little Gypsy Girl"
Eli Cohen, Swarthmore College

5. Eros and Ethos in the Political and Religious Logos of The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: The Anomic Character in Cervantes
Jesús Maestro, University of Oviedo

Part III: Kissing between the Lines: Blurring Sexual and Racial Norms

6. Sexy Beasts: Women and their Lapdogs in Baroque Satirical Verse
Adrienne Martin, University of California, Santa Cruz

7. Sexual Deviance and Morisco Marginality in Cervantes’s The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda
Christina Lee, Princeton University

8. The Black Madonna Icon: Race, Rape, and the Virgin of Montserrat in The Confession with the Devil by Francisco de Torre y Sevil
John Beusterien, Texas Tech University

Part IV: Recasting Erotic and Heroic Molds

9. For Love of the White Sea: The Curious Identity of Uludj Ali
Diana de Armas Wilson, University of Denver

10. Writing a Tragic Image: Eros and Eris in Lope de Vega’s Jerusalem Conquered
Jason McCloskey, Bucknell University

11. The Un-Romantic Approach to Don Quixote: Cervantine Love in the Spanish, Post-War Age
Ana Maria Laguna, Rutgers University

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