The interrelation of mind and literature is a relatively unexplored topic in the field of early modern studies. Moreover, there has been insufficient dialogue between humanists and scientists on how fictional and scientific accounts of the mind contribute together to the view that early modern culture had of human psychology. The intent of this collection is to fill this gap by bringing together, not simply humanists and scientists, but more specifically researchers who have a consistent record of interdisciplinary research on the topic at hand: Spanish medical doctors who have amply investigated early modern medicine and psychology in relation to the literature of the time (specifically Cervantes) as well as Cervantes scholars who have explored his work in relation to cognitive theories. Such diversity of voices makes Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind the first truly interdisciplinary anthology in the field of Cervantes’ studies, showing how scholars who put literary and scientific discourses in dialogue can help us further understand both Cervantes’ work and early modern culture. Finally, the book serves to disseminate important research on the history of Spanish science carried out by renowned medical doctors from Spain, whose work, often written in Spanish, is virtually unknown outside of Spain. These scientists are representatives of a long tradition, beginning in the Renaissance, of doctors working at the crossroads of medicine and the humanities.
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Foreword: Historicizing Cognitive Approaches to Cervantes |
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| Introduction: A Cognitive-Historicist Approach to Cervantes's Work |
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SECTION I Views of the Mind in Early Modern Spain |
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1 Spanish Brain Science and Philosophy of Mind in the Time of Cervantes: Three Seminal Thinkers |
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SECTION II Feeling, Thinking, and Remembering in Humans and Brutes |
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2 Emotion and Human Development in Cervantes's Don Quijote: The Case of Sancho Panza |
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27 | (23) |
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3 Aging, Emotion, and Cognition: El viejo zeloso and Early Modern Thought |
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4 Human Thinking about Thinking Animals in the Early Modern Spanish and Spanish American World |
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5 Wit, Imagination, and the Goat: The Untrodden Paths of Literary Creation in Cervantes's Don Quijote and Huarte's Examen de ingenios |
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98 | (20) |
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6 Cervantes and the Mother of the Muses: Views of Memory in Early Modern Spain |
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118 | (21) |
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SECTION III Altered Minds: Causes, Effects, and Remedies |
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7 Melancholic Consciousness: Cervantes's Contribution to Early Modern Views of Melancholy and the Emergence of the Fictional Mind |
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141 | (28) |
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8 Mind-Altering Agents in Cervantes's Work: Regarding His Sources on Pharmacology |
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169 | (28) |
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9 Don Quijote and Cervantes's Knowledge of Neurological Disorders |
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Isabel Jaén is Professor of Spanish at Portland State University and holds PhDs from Purdue University and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. She is co-editor of Cognitive Literary Studies (University of Texas Press, 2012), Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Self, Other, and Context in Early Modern Spain (Juan de la Cuesta, 2017).
Julien Jacques-Simon is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University East. He is co-editor of Cognitive Literary Studies (University of Texas Press, 2012), Cognitive Cervantes (special issue of the Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Spring 2012), Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Self, Other, and Context in Early Modern Spain (Juan de la Cuesta, 2017).
