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Contents ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 11 Chapter One "La gitanilla": At the Crossroads of History and Creativity 39 Chapter Two Cat6licos secretos, Conversos, and the Myth of the Maritime Life in "La espanola inglesa" 69 Chapter Three "Ellicenciado Vidriera," or "La historia de un fracaso" 97 Chapter Four The Prose of Honor 121 Chapter Five Apologia pro patria sua: Cervantes's "La senora Cornelia" 135 Notes 151 Selected Bibliography 159 Index ...

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