Cervantes and the Material World

by Carroll B. Johnson

In this innovative revisiting of Don Quixote and the Novelas ejemplares, Carroll B. Johnson investigates in detail the cultural and material environment in which Cervantes placed his characters.

Cervantes and the Material World reveals a recurrent preoccupation with the clash of two different economic systems: a reenergized feudalism and an incipient capitalism. Overturning the common assumption that Don Quixote, Sancho Panza,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252025482
• ISBN13: 9780252025488
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"