Images in Mind
Lovesickness, Spanish Sentimental Fiction, and Don Quijote
By Robert Folger
272 pp., 6 x 9, bibl
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9278-7
Published: January 2002
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Distributed for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
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.
About the Author
Robert Folger is a researcher at the University of Munich in Germany.
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