List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Appendices
Preface
1. Foundations
Dalinian Quixotism
Defining Classicism: Dalí, Freud, Sublimation, and Imitation
Conscious versus Unconscious; Public versus Private
Ut pictura poesis: Dalinian Narrative and Criticism
Object as Fetish: Lacan’s L’objet petit a and Salvador Dalí’s Clédalism
Experto credite: Dalí’s Quixotic Sally to the United States
2. Materialities
The 1946 Edition: Publishers, Economic Woes, and Literature
Public Documents: Unforeseen Challenge and Success
Revival of Literature
Private Documents: Random House Records
A Quixotic Cast of (Random House) Characters
The Adventure of the Missing Illustrations
3. Receptions
Salvador Dalí in an Unpredictable World
Malgré Lui: Past Political Polemics
Surrealism and Avant-Garde as Kitsch
Popular Culture and Translations: Peter Motteux
US Academic Reception
Battling the Black Legend
4. Illustrations
Engaging Beholders: Dalinian Didacticism and Academic Art
Battling Surrealism as Kitsch: Futurity of Renaissance Classicism and Baroque Methodologies
Classicism and Myth: Don Quixote’s First Sally with Phoebus and Aurora
Pictorial Diegesis: Don Quixote and the Windmills
Fantasy and Reality: Don Quixote and the Adventure of the Flock of Sheep
(Not So) Impossible Dreams: Surrealism in Dalí’s Other Seven 1946 Watercolours
Respecting Narratives: Dalí’s Black and White Line Drawings
5. Traditions
Illustrating Don Quixote: Academic Conversations at the Four-Hundred-Year Anniversary of Part I (2005)
Sister Arts: Literature and Book Illustration
Illustrative Trends: Foundational Early Illustrated Editions of Don Quixote
Spanish Illustrators: Neoclassical Spanishness in the 1780 Royal Spanish Academy Edition
French Romanticism: Tony Johannot (1836) and Gustave Doré (1863)
Pictorial Benchmarks: Book Illustrations of Don Quixote and the Windmills before Dalí
Imitatio: Dalinian Compositional Tropes in Book Illustrations after 1946
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index
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