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“Penetrating and lucid, The Aesthetic Turn in Cervantes looks back to Antiquity but also forward to an eighteenth-century long regarded as the genesis of modern aesthetics. Byrne’s intricate grasp on the most hermetic of premodern debates on poetics, sensory perception, and beauty allows her to boldly revise enduring scholarly assumptions, placing Cervantes at the vanguard of an early modern movement to conceptualize and expand the boundaries of the arts.” -- Paul Michael Johnson, Associate Research Professor of Spanish, Johns Hopkins University “With exquisite clarity and cultivated breadth of knowledge, Susan Byrne takes readers on a journey of exploration of what she terms ‘the early modern aesthetic turn.’ Deftly establishing the referential framework in which Cervantes is writing, in this groundbreaking book Byrne challenges readers, much as Cervantes did, to consider how his novels bring to light imagination, beauty, and truth as examples of a burgeoning aesthetic philosophy.” -- Carolyn A. Nadeau, Byron S. Tucci Professor of Spanish, Illinois Wesleyan University “The Aesthetic Turn in Cervantes is a solid contribution to the study of Cervantes from an aesthetic and historical perspective. Ambitious in scope, and at the same time concise and to the point, it traces the development of Cervantes' work in relation to ideas about fictional writing that circulated from its classical roots to the 18th century and beyond. The book reinforces the stature of Cervantes as an innovative writer whose literary experiments anticipated and paved the way for future theoretical understandings of fiction.” -- Luis F. Avilés, Professor of Spanish, University of California, Irvine

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Susan Byrne is a professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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