Table of Contents

Introduction
Obsessions with Remembering: The Culture of Memory in Early Modern Spain

1. The Anatomy of Early Modern Memory

Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind
The Topography of the Early Modern Brain
Memory and Recollection
Don Quixote’s Memory

2. Mental Libraries: The Places of Memory

Imaginary Libraries
Cervantes and Artificial Memory
The Art of Memory and Its Tradition
The Art of Memory in the Time of Cervantes
Sierra Morena: The Vast Territories of Memory

3. Ut Pictura Memoria: The Mnemonic Power of Images

Visual Expressions of Mnemonic Culture in the Age of Cervantes
Cervantine Mnemonic Inflections
The Mnemonic Power of Images: The Imago Agente in Don Quixote
Affectio and the Corporeality of the Phantasmata
The Circulation of Images in Cultural Artefacts

4. Information Overload: Stocking Memory in the Age of Cervantes

The Anxiety of the "Labyrinths of Letters"
Pedagogy, Mnemonics, and the Limits of Humanist Education
The Cousin: Student and Humanist
External Memories
The Mimetic Memory of the Cousin

5. Disputes over Memory: Sancho and the Artful Manipulation of Memory

"O Sancho miente o Sancho sueña"
"A fe que no os falta memoria cuando vos queréis tenerla": Sancho’s Selective Memory
"Como ya pasó, no es"
The Story of Torralba and the Performative Dimension of Memory
"Alta y sobajada señora…"
The False Memory Embedded in Imagination

Epilogue
Lethe and the Laws of Oblivion: Sites of Forgetting in Don Quixote

About the Author

Julia Dominguez is a professor of Spanish at Iowa State University.

Reviews

"With her masterful analysis of how Cervantes treats memory throughout Don Quixote, Domínguez has accomplished something quite rare in the world of Cervantine studies, a field populated by new books every month: writing a book that will be remembered." - William Worden, The University of Alabama (Hispanófila)