Introduction: Dissective Narratives -- 1 Dissection and Interiority: The Case of Spain -- 2 Fray Luis de Granada's Ill-fated Defence of the Inner Man -- 3 Quevedo and the Interiority of the Body Politic -- 4 Cervantes's Mechanical Interiors and Zayas's Female Anatomies -- Conclusion: Compliant Resistance
Summary
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spainbrings the study of Europe's "culture of dissection" to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self
