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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814914403321

Autore

Wood Sarah Florence

Titolo

Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815 / / Sarah F. Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-383-04161-X

1-280-75782-5

0-19-151516-7

1-4294-7077-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

810.9

Soggetti

American literature - Spanish influences

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) "Broken heads and bloated tales : Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815"--University of London, 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. An 'Inconsistent Discourse': Don Quixote in British Letters; 2. Transatlantic Cervantics: Don Quixote in the New Republic; 3. City on the Hill, Quixote in the Cave: The Politics of Retreat in the Fiction of Hugh Henry Brackenridge; 4. An Alien's Act of Sedition: 'Trans-atlantic peculiarities' and North African Attachments in The Algerine Captive; 5. Private Properties, Public Nuisance: Arthur Mervyn and the Rise and Fall of a Republican Quixote

6. Nobody's Dulcinea: Romantic Fictions and Republican Mothers in Tabitha Gilman Tenney's Female Quixotism7. 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; Coda: Romantic Quixotes and Reconstructed Knights; Works Consulted; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the role of Don Quixote in early American literature, Sarah Wood looks at the extent to which the literary culture of North America was shaped by a diverse range of influences, addressing an issue of



growing concern to scholars of American history and literature.