The principal objective of The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes is to create a resource in English that provides a fully comprehensive overview of the life, works, and influences of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). This volume contains seven sections, exploring in depth Cervantes's life and how the trials, tribulations, and hardships endured influenced his writing. Cervantistas from numerous countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and France offer their expertise with the most up-to-date research and interpretations to complete this wide-ranging, but detailed, compendium of a writer not known for much other than his famous novel outside of the Spanish-speaking world. Here we explore his famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha, his other prose works, his theatrical output, his poetry, his sources, influences, and contemporaries, and finally reception of his works over the last four hundred years

Dedication
List of Cervantes's Works
List of Contributors
Note on Translations
Aaron M. Kahn: Introduction
SECTION 1: BIOGRAPHY
1: Jean Canavaggio: Cervantes's Life
2: Stacey Triplette: Cervantes and Warfare
3: Frederick de Armas: Cervantes and Empire
4: María Antonia Garcés: Cervantes in Captivity
SECTION 2: DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA
5: Edwin Williamson: Don Quixote Part I (1605)
6: Edwin Williamson: Don Quixote Part II (1615)
7: James Iffland: Quixote and Counter-Quixote: The Cervantes-Avellaneda Duel and Its Impact on the History of the Novel
8: Yolanda Iglesias: Don Quixote de la Mancha's Narrative Structure within the Literary Tradition
9: Donald Palmer: Don Quixote: Humour in Philosophy and Philosophy in Humour
SECTION 3: CERVANTES'S PROSE
10: Benjamin J. Nelson: 'para empresas más altas y de mayor importancia': The rota Virgilii and the Orphic Poet in Miguel de Cervantes's La Galatea (1585)
11: Barry Ife: Novelas ejemplares (1613)
12: Michael Armstrong-Roche: Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: historia setentrional (1617)
13: Rachel N. Bauer: Cervantes and Madness
14: Brian Brewer: Cervantes and Genre
SECTION 4: CERVANTES THE DRAMATIST
15: David G. Burton: First Writings for the Stage (1580s): Pre-Lopean Success and Failures
16: Melanie Henry: Ocho comedias (1615)
17: Carolyn Lukens-Olson: The Ignominies of Persuasion in Cervantes's Entremeses (1615): An Overview of Cervantine Farce
18: Moisés R. Castillo: Cervantes and the comedia nueva
19: Kathleen Jeffs: Versification in Cervantes's Drama
SECTION 5: CERVANTES'S POETRY AND OTHER WRITINGS
20: Adrienne L. Martín: Cervantine Poetry: History and Context
21: Esther Fernández Rodríguez: Confessing on the Move: Viaje del Parnaso and 'Adjunta al Parnaso' (1614)
22: Aaron M. Kahn: Attributions and Lost and Promised Works
SECTION 6: SOURCES, INFLUENCES, AND CONTEMPORARIES
23: Stacey Triplette: Cervantes's Sources and Influences
24: Jonathan Thacker: Cervantes and Lope de Vega
25: Victoria Ríos Castaño: Cervantes and Other Literary Circles
26: Zenón Luis-Martínez: Windmills of Reality, Giants of the Imagination: Cervantes in British Literature
27: Diana de Armas Wilson: Cervantes in / on the Americas
SECTION 7: RECEPTION
28: Krzysztof Sliwa: Cervantes Biographers
29: Duncan Wheeler: Cervanes on Screen
30: R. J. Oakley: Cervantine Criticism until 1999
31: Bruce R. Burningham: Cervantine Criticism since 2000 and into the Future

Edited by Aaron M. Kahn , Lecturer in Spanish, University of Sussex

Aaron M. Kahn has taught at the University of Sussex since 2008. He graduated with Magna Cum Laude honours at Ohio University, USA (2000), and completed his DPhil in Golden Age Spanish Literature at the University of Oxford (Linacre College) in 2005. His current teaching includes Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature and Film, Translation and Oral Interpreting, along with Spanish Golden Age Literature.