456. Touch Me With Your Madness: Cervantes’ Don Quixote

Why do critics consider Don Quixote the first “modern” novel, and what does it tell us about the aesthetics of fiction?

• E. Grossman (trans.), Cervantes: Don Quixote (New York: 2003).

• C. Jarvis (trans.), Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Don Quixote de la Mancha (Oxford: 1992).

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• S. Boyd, T.L. Darby, and T. O’Reilly (eds), The Art of Cervantes in Don Quixote: Critical Essays (Cambridge: 2019).

• A.J. Cascardi, “Two Kinds of Knowing in Plato, Cervantes, and Aristotle,” Philosophy

and Literature 24 (2000), 406-23.

• A.J. Cascardi (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes (Cambridge: 2002).

• A. Close, Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age (Cambridge: 1977).

• D. De Armas Wilson, Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World (Oxford: 2001).

• M. de Unamuno, The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, trans. A Kerrigan (Princeton: 1967).

• W. Egginton, The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (New York: 2017).

• A. Castro, El pensamiento de Cervantes (Barcelona: 1972).

• A.K. Forcione, Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Persiles (Princeton: 1970).

• A.K. Forcione, Cervantes and the Humanist Vision (Princeton: 1982).

• S. Gilman, The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: 1989).

• A.M. Kahn (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes (Oxford: 2021).

• D. McCrory, No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes (London: 2002).

• L. Nelson Jr (ed.), Cervantes: a Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs: 1969).

• D. Quint, Cervantes’s Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of Don Quijote (Princeton: 2003).

• E.C. Riley, Cervantes’ Theory of the Novel (Oxford: 1962).

• P.E. Russell, Cervantes (Oxford: 1985).