03575nam 2200637 a 450 991081491440332120230617001304.01-383-04161-X1-280-75782-50-19-151516-71-4294-7077-1(CKB)1000000000411029(EBL)422795(OCoLC)139984611(SSID)ssj0000231796(PQKBManifestationID)11175169(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000231796(PQKBWorkID)10209368(PQKB)11299550(Au-PeEL)EBL422795(CaPaEBR)ebr10177962(CaONFJC)MIL75782(MiAaPQ)EBC422795(EXLCZ)99100000000041102920060228d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrQuixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815[electronic resource] /Sarah F. WoodOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (314 p.)Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) "Broken heads and bloated tales : Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815"--University of London, 2003.0-19-927315-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-276) and index.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 Quixote6. 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; IndexQuixotic 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 American literatureSpanish influencesAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature1783-1850History and criticismAmerican literatureSpanish influences.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.810.9Wood Sarah Florence557419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814914403321Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815929290UNINA