Affective Geographies

Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean

Paul Michael Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2021
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0751-0 (ISBN)

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By reading the works of Miguel de Cervantes through the history of emotion, this book defies a series of long-standing commonplaces about the author’s writing and the Mediterranean region at large.

For Miguel de Cervantes, to narrate a Mediterranean experience is to necessarily speak of an emotional experience. Affective Geographies takes as its point of departure the premise that literature is as influential in constructing the Mediterranean as are its geographic, climatic, or economic features. As the writer with the most vast and varied Mediterranean experience of his era, Cervantes is exceptionally well-suited for the critical task of recovering the literary Mediterranean.

Engaging with the interdisciplinary fields of Mediterranean studies, affect theory, and the history of emotion, Paul Michael Johnson reads Cervantes’s texts alongside the affective structures that inscribe the Mediterranean as a space of conflict, commerce, expansion, and empire. In particular, he argues that Cervantes’s writing, with its uncommon focus on the Moorish, Islamic, and North African experience, can serve to realign misconceptions about the Mediterranean we have inherited today. Affective Geographies proposes that, with a more than four-hundred-year history of impacting the hearts and minds of readers, Cervantes’s works constitute a literary longue durée, ramifying beyond fiction to alter the popular imaginary and long-term cultural landscape.

Paul Michael Johnson is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at DePauw University.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Part One: Casting Off
1. Introduction
2. Connected (Hi)stories: The Cervantine, Literary, and Affective Mediterranean

The Historical Mediterranean
The Literary Mediterranean
The Affective Mediterranean
Contesting a Sea of Discourses
Deviations from Reason in a Sea of Diversity

Part Two: Quixotic Passages

3. Shadows of the Inquisition: Honour, Shame, and a Cervantine View of Mediterranean “Values”

Anthropologies of Mediterranean Honour and Shame
Visual Topographies of Shame
Shame Punishments and Cervantes
Blood Purity and the Art of Infamy in Don Quijote’s Encagement
Conclusion

4. A Mediterranean (Tragi)comedy: Sancho, Ricote, and the Emotional Politics of Laughter

Gelotological Genealogies
The Emotional Effects of Laughter, and Laughter as Affect
Sancho and Schadenfreude, or Courtly Comedics
From Sadism to Satire
Laughing with Sancho and Ricote
Conclusion

Part Three: Other Ports of Call

5. Suspended Admiration: Wonder, Surprise, and Emotional Exemplarity in La española inglesa

Aesthetics of the Unexpected
Early Modern Cultures of Suspension
Tempering Fears, Tempering Sails 153 Ethical Solutions through Admiratio
Conclusion

6. Aporias of Love: Articulating the Ineffable in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda

Beyond Sentimentalism
Aporias
Ineffability
Materiality
Conclusion

Afterword

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Toronto Iberic
Zusatzinfo	12 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4875-0751-8 / 1487507518
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-0751-0 / 9781487507510
Zustand	Neuware