Table of Contents
Imagining Culture: Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern Europe Jonathan Hart; Part 1: History, Fiction, and the Human Sciences; 1. History and Anthropology, and the History of Anthropology: Considerations on a Methodological Practice Anthony Pagden 2. The Emergence of the Paradoxical Self Eva Kushner 3. Sperone Speroni and the Labyrinthine Discourse of Renaissance Dialogue Olga Zorzi Pugliese 4. Strategies of Promotion: Some Prefatory Matter of Oviedo, Thevet, and Hakluyt Jonathan Hart; Part 2: Gender and Representation; 5. "My Honour I’ll Bequeath unto the Knife": Public Heroism, Private Sacrifice, and Early Modern Rapes of Lucrece Mercedes Maroto Camino 6. Pour une poetique de la nouvelle Gisele Mathieu-Castellani 7. Speaking Politically Correct in the Feminine Voice: Examples from the Decameron and the Heptameron Sylvie L. F. Richards; Part 3: Early Modernity/Modernity/Postmodernity; 8. Cervantes et Tirso face aux perfomatifs: Don Quichotte et Don Juan Atonio Gomez-Moriana 9. Concerning Ariosto’s Modernity: Alcina’s Case Massimo Verdicchio 10. Challenging the Order of the Sun in Gongora’s Soledades Rachel Schmidt 11. Showing and Telling: An Essay on Narrative Theory and Renaissance Drama Elizabeth M. Richard-Garza; Notes; Works cited; Contributors; Index
