{"product_id":"9781442618909","title":"Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain\u003c\/em\u003e brings the study of Europe’s “culture of dissection” to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century anatomical research stimulated both a sense of interiority and a fear of that interior’s exposure and punishment by the early modern state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining works by Miguel de Cervantes, María de Zayas, Fray Luis de Granada, and Francisco de Quevedo, Fernandez highlights the existence of narratives in which the author creates a surrogate self on paper, then “dissects” it. He argues that these texts share a fearful awareness of having a complex inner self in a country where one’s interiority was under permanent threat of punitive exposure by the Inquisition or the state. A sophisticated analysis of literary, religious, and medical practice in early modern Spain, Fernandez’s work will interest scholars working on questions of early modern science, medicine, and body politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142899941616,"sku":"9781442618909","price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442618909_p0.jpg?v=1763809373","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442618909","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}