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Autore |
Wood Sarah Florence |
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Titolo |
Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815 / / Sarah F. Wood |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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1-383-04161-X |
1-280-75782-5 |
0-19-151516-7 |
1-4294-7077-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) "Broken heads and bloated tales : Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815"--University of London, 2003. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-276) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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