Beyond Sight : Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200-1750.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Sensing Religion -- 1 The Breath of Lazarus in the Mocedades de Rodrigo -- 2 Sabrosa olor: The Role of Olfaction and Smells in Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora -- Part Two: Cognition and the Senses -- 3 The Internal Senses in Don Quixote and the Anatomy of Memory -- 4 Taste, Cognition, and Redemption in Guzmán de Alfarache -- 5 The Aesthetics of Disgust in Miguel de Cervantes and María de Zayas -- Part Three: Perception -- 6 Sight, Sound, Scent, and Sense: Reading the Cancionero de Palacio -- 7 Treating Sensory Ailments in Early Modern Domestic Literature -- 8 Cervantes's Exemplary Sensorium, or the Skinny on La española inglesa -- Part Four: Sensing Empire -- 9 The Senses of Empire and the Scents of Babylon in the Libro de Alexandre -- 10 Portuguese Scenes of the Senses, Medieval and Early Modern -- 11 Eucharistic Thought and Imperial Longing in Portugal from Amadeus da Silva's Apocalypsis Nova (1502) to António Vieira's História do Futuro (1663-1667) -- 12 Festive Soundscapes in Colonial Potosí and Minas Gerais -- Part Five: Sensing the Urban -- 13 Celestial Visions and Demonic Touch: García's Inventions in La verdad sospechosa -- 14 Motherhood Interrupted: Sensing Birth in Early Modern Spanish Literature -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch).

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