1: Cristóbal de Villalón: Language, Education, and the Absolutist State; 2: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Making of the Spanish State; 3: A Discourse on Wealth in Golden Age Literature; 4: Patronage, the Parody of an Institution in Don Quijote; 5: Printing and Reading Popular Religious Texts in Sixteenth-Century Spain; 6: Emblematic Representation and Guided Culture in Baroque Spain: Juan de Horozco y Covarrubias; 7: Intellectuals, the State, and the Public Sphere in Spain: 1700-1840; 8: Constituting the Subject: Race, Gender, and Nation in the Early Nineteenth Century; 9: Religious Subject-Forms: Nationalism, Literature, and the Consolidation of Moderantismo in Spain during the 1840s; 9: Afterword