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Autore |
Hanlon Aaron R (Aaron Raymond), <1982-> |
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Titolo |
A World of Disorderly Notions : Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism / / Aaron R. Hanlon |
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2020 |
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Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019 |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - Spanish influences |
English fiction - Spanish influences |
Exceptionalism in literature |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Characters and characteristics in literature |
English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: a world of disorderly notions -- Part I: The character of quixotism. Quixotic exceptionalism -- Anatomy of quixotism -- Character and front matters -- Relational quixotism -- Part II: The character of exceptionalism. Gulliver and English exceptionalism -- Underhill and American exceptionalism -- Adams, Farrago, and civic exceptionalism -- Arabella, Dorcasina, and domestic exceptionalism -- Launcelot and juridical exceptionalism -- Knickerbocker and reactionary exceptionalism -- Marauder and radical exceptionalism -- Coda: quixotism, phenomenology, epistemology. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"From Jonathan Swift to Thomas Jefferson, those looking to propose and justify exceptions to social and political norms turned to Cervantes's notoriously mad comic hero as a model, yielding an explosion of imitations of Quixote in fiction and polemical writing; this book examines the exceptionalist character of Quixote and tells the |
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story of how quixotism became political and politicized"-- |
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