Images in Mind: Lovesickness, Spanish Sentimental Fiction, and Don Quijote

by Robert Folger

Overview

Fifteenth-century Spanish sentimental fiction can be described as a palimpsest, a dense web of entangled, faded readings and a challenge to the reader. While the parameters of writing sentimental fiction and its textuality have been explored with great success, its readers and how they approached these works have been largely neglected.

Based on a reconstruction of the medical notion of love-as-sickness, premodern reading habits, and interpretive strategies, this book approaches canonical works of sentimental romance from the perspective of a medical-sensitive reader. An analysis of Don Quijote silhouetted against the subtext of sentimental romance reveals how faculty psychology and lovesickness resonate in Golden Age literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807892787
Publisher:	UNC Department of Romance Studies
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Series:	North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures , #274
Edition description:	1
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Robert Folger is a researcher at the University of Munich in Germany.