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1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) "Broken heads and bloated tales : Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815"--University of London, 2003. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-276) and index. |
| Contents |
An 'inconsistent discourse' : Don Quixote in British letters -- Transatlantic Cervantics : Don Quixote in the New Republic -- City on the hill, Quixote in the cave : the politics of retreat in the fiction of Hugh Henry Brackenridge -- An alien's act of sedition : 'trans-Atlantic peculiarities' and North African attachments in The Algerian captive -- Private properties, public nuisance : Arthur Mervyn and the rise and fall of a Republican Quixote -- Nobody's Dulcinea : romantic fictions and Republican mothers in Tabitha Gilman Tenney's Female Quixoticism -- The underwhelming history of America's overbearing fathers : A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty. |
| Summary |
Quixotic Fictions is the first book-length study of the role of Don Quixote in early American literature. Coinciding with the quadricentenary of Don Quixote 's first publication, Quixotic Fictions reaffirms the global reach of Cervantes's influence and explores the complex, contradictory ways in which Don Quixote helped to shape American fiction at a formative moment in its. development. - ;Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815 explores the conflicted and conflicting interpretations of Don Quixote available to and deployed by disenchanted writers of America's new republic. It argues that the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Influence.
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. |
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Influence. |
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Influence. |
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Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) |
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American literature -- Spanish influences.
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American literature -- Spanish influences. |
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American literature. |
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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19th century |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wood, Sarah Florence. Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 9780199273157 0199273154 (DLC) 2006272827 (OCoLC)61302142 |
| ISBN |
9781429470773 (electronic book) |
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1429470771 (electronic book) |
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0191515167 |
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9780191515163 |
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1280757825 |
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9781280757822 |
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0199273154 (Cloth) |
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9780199273157 (acid-free paper) |
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