Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Part One: Objects of Luxury and Power

1 Gifts for the Vicereine of Naples: The Weavings of Garcilaso’s Third Eclogue

MARY E. BARNARD

2 Artful Edifices and the Construction of Identity in Montemayor’s Diana and Lope’s Arcadia

MARSHA S. COLLINS

3 The Artful Gamblers: Wagering Danaë in Cervantes’ Don Quixote I.33–35

FREDERICK A. DE ARMAS

4 The Things They Carried: Sovereign Objects in Calderón de la Barca’s La gran Cenobia

MARÍA CRISTINA QUINTERO

5 Beyond Canvas and Paint: Falling Portraits in the Spanish Comedia

CHRISTOPHER B. WEIMER

Part Two: The Matter of Words

6 Book Marks: Jerónimo de Aguilar and the Book of Hours

HEATHER ALLEN

7 Embodying the Visual, Visualizing Sound in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Primero sueño

EMILIE L. BERGMANN

8 Picaresque Partitions: Spanish Antiheroes and the Material World

EDWARD H. FRIEDMAN

9 Francisco de Quevedo and the Poetic Matter of Patronage

ROBERT TER HORST

Part Three: Objects against Culture

10 Transformation and Transgression at the Banquet Scene in La Celestina

CAROLYN A. NADEAU

11 The Prayer of the Immured Woman and the Matter of Lazarillo de Tormes

RYAN D. GILES

12 War and the Material Conditions for Suffering in Cervantes’ Numancia

LUIS F. AVILÉS

13 The Goddess, Dionysus, and the Material World in Don Quijote

TIMOTHY AMBROSE

14 Dismantling Sosiego: Undressing, Dressing, and Cross-Dressing in Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache

GORETTI GONZÁLEZ

Contributors