Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, and Gómez Pereira. The editors bring together humanists and scientists: literary scholars and doctors whose interdisciplinary research integrates diverse types of sources (philosophical and medical treatises, natural histories, rhetoric manuals, pharmacopoeias, etc.) alongside Cervantes’s works to examine themes and areas including emotion, human development, animal vs. human consciousness, pathologies of the mind, and mind-altering substances. Their chapters trace the cognitive themes and points of inquiry that Cervantes shares with other early modern thinkers, showing how he both echoes and contributes to early modern views of the mind. This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, Gómez Pereira, and others Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Notes on Contributors 10 Foreword: Historicizing Cognitive Approaches to Cervantes 14 Introduction: A Cognitive-Historicist Approach to Cervantes’s Work 18 SECTION I: Views of the Mind in Early Modern Spain 24 1 Spanish Brain Science and Philosophy of Mind in the Time of Cervantes: Three Seminal Thinkers 26 SECTION II: Feeling, Thinking, and Remembering in Humans and Brutes 42 2 Emotion and Human Development in Cervantes’s Don Quijote: The Case of Sancho Panza 44 3 Aging, Emotion, and Cognition: El viejo zeloso and Early Modern Thought 67 4 Human Thinking about Thinking Animals in the Early Modern Spanish and Spanish American World 95 5 Wit, Imagination, and the Goat: The Untrodden Paths of Literary Creation in Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Huarte’s Examen de ingenios 115 6 Cervantes and the Mother of the Muses: Views of Memory in Early Modern Spain 135 SECTION III: Altered Minds: Causes, Effects, and Remedies 156 7 Melancholic Consciousness: Cervantes’s Contribution to Early Modern Views of Melancholy and the Emergence of the Fictional Mind 158 8 Mind-Altering Agents in Cervantes’s Work: Regarding His Sources on Pharmacology 186 9 Don Quijote and Cervantes’s Knowledge of Neurological Disorders 214 Index 234 don,quixote;,quixotic;,renaissance;,sancho,panza;,neuroscience;,medicine;,psychology;,memory;,Godoy;,neurological,disorder;,mental,health;,mind;,consciousness;,Dulcinea;,animals;,emotion;,human,development;,cervantes;,cognition;,cognitive,literary,studies;,brain;,Juan,Huarte,de,San,Juan;,melancholy don quixote,quixotic,renaissance,sancho panza,neuroscience,medicine,psychology,memory,Godoy,neurological disorder,mental health,mind,consciousness,Dulcinea,animals,emotion,human development,cervantes,cognition,cognitive literary studies,brain,Juan Huarte de San Juan,melancholy This Book Explores The Work Of Cervantes In Relation To The Ideas About The Mind That Circulated In Early Modern Europe And Were Propelled By Thinkers Such As Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte De San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, Gómez Pereira, And Others. The Editors Bring Together Humanists And Scientists: Literary Scholars And Doctors Whose Interdisciplinary Research Integrates Diverse Types Of Sources (philosophical And Medical Treatises, Natural Histories, Rhetoric Manuals, Pharmacopoeias, Etc.) Alongside Cervantes's Works To Examine Themes And Areas Including Emotion, Human Development, Animal Vs. Human Consciousness, Pathologies Of The Mind, And Mind-altering Substances. Their Essays Trace The Cognitive Themes And Points Of Inquiry That Cervantes Shares With Other Early Modern Thinkers, Showing How He Both Echoes And Contributes To Early Modern Views Of The Mind. This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andres Laguna, Andres Velasquez, Marsilio Ficino, and Gomez Pereira. The editors bring together humanists and scientists: literary scholars and doctors whose interdisciplinary research integrates diverse types of sources (philosophical and medical treatises, natural histories, rhetoric manuals, pharmacopoeias, etc.) alongside Cervantes's works to examine themes and areas including emotion, human development, animal vs. human consciousness, pathologies of the mind, and mind-altering substances. Their chapters trace the cognitive themes and points of inquiry that Cervantes shares with other early modern thinkers, showing how he both echoes and contributes to early modern views of the mind