The prisoner of sex (Quijote, I, 22)
Spanish law and the origins of the novel
Engendering Dulcinea
The knight as fugitive from justice: the Quijote, Part I
The amorous pestilence: interpolated stories in the Quijote, Part I
Broken tales: love stories in the Quijote, Part I
The politics of love and law: the Quijote, Part II
A marriage made in heaven: Camacho's wedding (Quijote, II, 19-21)
Love and national unity: Ricote's daughter's Byzantine romance
The exemplariness of the exemplary stories: "The Call of the Blood"
The bride who never was and her brood: "The Deceitful Marriage"
Cervantes' literary will: The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda
The novel after Cervantes: Borges and Carpentier.