Novel Friendships and Community in Cervantess Don Quixote analyzes Don Quixote through the critical lens of friendship studies. Turning a critical spotlight on the friendship of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, this book examines the formation, growth, and dynamics of their friendship as the nucleus of the first modern novel in the West and the source of the works enduring power. Novel Friendships also studies the theme of amity in relationship to the evolving concept of community as a throughline in Cervantess fiction in, before, and after Don Quixote. This book shows the power of the arts, especially storytelling, to build friendships and community, and highlights how Cervantes deploys fiction to cultivate his readers friendship and create a community of readers. Novel Friendships suggests how today's readers may find that Cervantes's views on amity and community prove relevant to our contemporary world.
Acknowledgements
Preface: Cervantes, Friendship, and a Community of Readers
Chapter 1: Cervantess World of Friendship and Community
Chapter 2: I was the first . . .Before Don Quixote
Chapter 3: Don Quixote and Sancho, a Novel Friendship
Chapter 4: Don Quixotes Gallery of Friendships
Chapter 5: Cervantes, Community, and Don Quixote
Conclusion: Persiles, Cervantess Last Words on Amity and Community
Index
Marsha S. Collins, is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A hispanist and comparatist, she studies the Literature of Early Modern Spain in its European and global context. She has written on romance, pastoral, and other idealizing fictional forms, literature and the visual arts, early modern lyric poetry, and Early Modern European court culture. Known for her research on Cervantes, Lope, Góngora, and others, she currently serves as Vice President and President-Elect of the Cervantes Society of America, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Asociación de Cervantistas.
