This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantesâ s Don Quijote, Zayasâ s Desengaà os amorosos, Scarronâ s Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergeracâ s Lâ Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayetteâ s Zayde.