Cervantes and the Cultural Politics of Affect in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Sentimental Geographies: Cervantes and the Cultural Politics of Affect in the Early Modern Mediterranean DISSERTATION submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Spanish by Paul Michael Johnson Dissertation Committee: Associate Professor Luis F. Avilés, Chair Professor Steven Hutchinson Assistant Professor Santiago Morales-Rivera 2014 Portion of Chapter 6 © 2011 Cervantes Society of America Portion of Chapter 4 © 2013 eHumanista All other materials © 2014 Paul Michael Johnson For my family, who taught me about passion Remember, Paul, it is passion that makes the world go round. […] In the absence of passion the world would still be void and without form. Think of Don Quixote. Don Quixote is not about a man sitting in a rocking chair bemoaning the dullness of La Mancha. It is about a man who claps a basin on his head and clambers onto the back of his faithful old plough-horse and sallies forth to do great deeds. J. M. Coetzee, Slow Man ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF FIGURES........................................................................................................................................................... v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......................................................................................................................................... viiii CURRICULUM VITAE ................................................................................................................................................ xii ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION ............................................................................................................ xviiii PREFACE: Exploring Affect across Cervantine Works and Mediterranean Worlds ................................................................................................................................................................. 1 PART ONE: Cervantine Affectivity ..................................................................................................................... 17 CHAPTER ONE: Diversity of Expression and Deviations from Reason: The Rhetoric and Philosophy of Cervantine Affectivity .................................................................... 18 ‘Deviations’ from Reason: Cervantes’s Emotional Philosophy ........................................................ 24 The Defiance of Expression............................................................................................................................... 34 The Visuality of Narrative.................................................................................................................................. 41 From Novel Emotions to Emotional Novels .............................................................................................. 57 Conclusion: From Variety of Experience to Diversity of Expression ............................................ 62 CHAPTER TWO: A Momentary Lapse of Reason? Cervantine Suspension and Emotional Exemplarity in the Novelas ejemplares ...................................................................... 75 The Event of Surprise and the Aesthetics of the Unexpected .......................................................... 79 Spanish Suspension in the English Court: “La española inglesa” ................................................... 84 From Music to Mysticism: Early Modern Cultures of Suspension ................................................. 93 From Apatheia to Admiratio: Ethical Solutions through Affect ................................................... 112 Conclusion: A Mediterranean Emotional Exemplarity ..................................................................... 120 CHAPTER THREE: Aporias of Love: Articulating the Ineffable in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda ........................................................................................................................ 130 Beyond Sentimentalism ................................................................................................................................... 133 Aporias ..................................................................................................................................................................... 139 iii Ineffability .............................................................................................................................................................. 150 Materiality .............................................................................................................................................................. 164 Conclusion .............................................................................................................................................................. 171 PART TWO: Shame: A Case Study ................................................................................................................... 177 CHAPTER FOUR: “Salido a la vergüenza”: Inquisition, Penality, and a Cervantine View of Mediterranean ‘Values’ ................................................................................ 178 Anthropologies of Mediterranean Honor and Shame ....................................................................... 183 Visual Topographies of Shame ..................................................................................................................... 196 The Art of Infamy in the Episodes of Encagement.............................................................................. 201 Conclusion: (Re)valuing Shame ................................................................................................................... 221 CHAPTER FIVE: Inhabiting Affect: The Cultural, Historical, and Ethical Functions of Shame in Don Quijote .................................................................................................. 233 Don Quijote’s Blush: The Syntax of Shameful Chivalry (I) .............................................................. 244 Don Quijote’s Blush: The Syntax of Shameful Chivalry (II) ............................................................ 249 The Passion of the Court: Shame and the Politics of Performance ............................................. 254 My Own Worst Enemy: Shame as Technology of the Self ............................................................... 269 Conclusion: The Cervantine Event of Shame ......................................................................................... 280 CHAPTER SIX: A Soldier’s Shame: The Specter of Captivity in “La historia del cautivo” ......................................................................................................................................................... 289 Recounting Captivity ......................................................................................................................................... 295 Reading an Unwritten Letter ........................................................................................................................ 305 Religious Contamination and Contested Reintegration ................................................................... 317 Captive Audiences .............................................................................................................................................. 324 Conclusion: The (Re)solution of Shame and the Politics of the Public ..................................... 330 AFTERWORD............................................................................................................................................................. 343 WORKS CITED .......................................................................................................................................................... 351 iv LIST OF FIGURES Page Figure 1. John Vanderbank (illustrator) and Gerard van der Gucht (engraver), Cervantes receives his arms to fight Chivalric Books (London, 1738; frontispiece). Burin engraving/etching (acquaforte). Cervantes Project. Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University. ........................... 71 Figure 2. John Vanderbank (illustrator) and Gerard van der Gucht (engraver), Grisóstomo’s burial and Marcela’s appearance (London, 1738; I: 110). Burin engraving/etching (acquaforte). Cervantes Project. Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University. ................................................. 72 Figure 3. John Vanderbank (illustrator) and Gerard van der Gucht (engraver), Sansón Carrasco proposes himself to be don Quixote’s squire (London, 1738; III: 60). Burin engraving/etching (acquaforte). Cervantes Project. Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University. ........................... 73 Figure 4. John Vanderbank (illustrator) and Gerard van der Gucht (engraver), Don Quixote’s last will (London, 1738; IV: 363). Burin engraving/etching (acquaforte). Cervantes Project. Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University. ........................................................................................................... 74 Figure 5. Philippe Joseph Auguste Vallot, L’ingénieux chevalier Don Quixote de la Manche. (Paris, 1821; title page). Engraving. Cervantes Project. Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University. ................................................................ 126 Figure 6. Vicente Barneto y Vázquez, Cervantes en la prisión imaginando el Quijote (de la roca). (Madrid, 1877; xx). Wood engraving/xylography. Cervantes Project. Cushing Memorial Library, Texas