LEADER 03575nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910814914403321 005 20230617001304.0 010 $a1-383-04161-X 010 $a1-280-75782-5 010 $a0-19-151516-7 010 $a1-4294-7077-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000411029 035 $a(EBL)422795 035 $a(OCoLC)139984611 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000231796 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175169 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000231796 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209368 035 $a(PQKB)11299550 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL422795 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10177962 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL75782 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC422795 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000411029 100 $a20060228d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aQuixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815$b[electronic resource] /$fSarah F. Wood 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (314 p.) 300 $aBased on the author's thesis (doctoral) "Broken heads and bloated tales : Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815"--University of London, 2003. 311 $a0-19-927315-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-276) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a6. 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 330 $aQuixotic 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 606 $aAmerican literature$xSpanish influences 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y1783-1850$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican literature$xSpanish influences. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9 700 $aWood$b Sarah Florence$0557419 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814914403321 996 $aQuixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815$9929290 997 $aUNINA