Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815 / / Sarah F. Wood
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (314 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815 |
| ISBN: | 1-383-04161-X |
| 1-280-75782-5 | |
| 0-19-151516-7 | |
| 1-4294-7077-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814914403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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