Millennial Cervantes explores some of the most important recent
trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century. It
brings together leading Cervantes scholars of the United States in
order to showcase their cutting-edge work within a cultural studies
frame that encompasses everything from ekphrasis to philosophy,
from sexuality to Cold War political satire, and from the culinary
arts to the digital humanities.Millennial Cervantes is divided into
three sets of essays—conceptually organized around thematic and
methodological lines that move outward in a series of concentric
circles. The first group, focused on the concept of "Cervantes in
his original contexts," features essays that bring new insights to
these texts within the primary context of early modern Iberian
culture. The second group, focused on the concept of "Cervantes in
comparative contexts," features essays that examine Cervantes's
works in conjunction with those of the English-speaking world, both
seventeenth- and twentieth-century. The third group, focused on the
concept of "Cervantes in wider cultural contexts," examines
Cervantes's works—principally Don Quixote—as points of departure
for other cultural products and wider intellectual debates. This
collection articulates the state of Cervantes studies in the first
two decades of the new millennium as we move further into a century
that promises both unimagined technological advances and the
concomitant cultural changes that will naturally adhere to this new
technology, whatever it may be.