Don Quijote y los orígenes de los mapas publicados en libros a comienzos de la era moderna europea

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v47i1.4865

Keywords:

Cervantes, Don Quijote, maps, book illustration, national identity

Abstract

The increasing importance of literature as a signifier of national identity transformed how maps were valued during the Enlightenment. The first part of this essay examines how this cartographic component was visualized in the engravings and maps included in various editions of Don Quijote published in the eighteenth century and in previous centuries, as curiously the work had not been illustrated with maps until the 1780 edition. Then, we will trace the emergence of national identity and values, such as masculine authority, in this canonical work of literature through its cartographic component. The subject grows even more complex once the assignment of identity is performed by foreign hands.

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