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Diana de Armas Wilson is Professor Emerita of English and Renaissnace Studies at the University of Denver. She is the author of Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda; co-editor of Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes; and author of Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World.

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This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Burton Raffel's masterful translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English" - Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by Diana de Armas Wilson and including the translator's note.
• A revised and expanded introduction as well as revised and expanded explanatory footnotes by Diana de Armas Wilson.
• A rich selection of contextual materials, including related writings by Cervantes and his contemporaries as well as a modern account of Don Quijote's influence over five centuries.
• Fifteen critical essays-seven of them new to the Second Edition-thematically organised to maximise classroom discussion. The new essays are by Ilan Stavans, Anne J. Cruz, Paul Michael Johnson, Pablo Garci a-Pin~ar, Anthony J. Cascardi, Barbara Fuchs and Andre s Lema-Hincapie .
• A chronology and a selected bibliography.