Contradictory Subjects : Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture

This ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by placing literary production in its socio-cultural context. Drawing on theories of cultural materialism and making use of historical analysis, George Mariscal focuses on the ways in which the problem of subjectivity is constructed in the writing of the period, particularly the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo and Cervantes' Don Quixote . Contents Preface 1. The Subject of Hispanism 2. Tracking the Subject in Early Modern Spain 3. Francisco de Quevedo: Individuation and Exclusion 4. Miguel de Cervantes: Deindividuating Don Quixote Afterword: The Exigencies of Agency Bibliography Index