Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815OUP Oxford, 3. nov. 2005 - 314 sider 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 legacy of Don Quixote provided an ambiguous cultural icon and ironic narrative stance that enabled authors to critique with impunity the ideological fictions shoring up their fractured republic. Close readings of works such as Modern Chivalry, Female Quixotism, and The Algerine Captive reveal that the fiction from this period repeatedly engaged with Cervantes's narrative in order to test competing interpretations of republicanism, to interrogate the new republic's multivalent crises of authority, and to question both the possibility and the desirability of an isolationist USA and an autonomous 'American' literature. Sarah Wood's study is the first book-length publication to examine the role of Don Quixote in early American literature. Exploring the extent to which the literary culture of North America was shaped by a diverse range of influences, it addresses an issue of growing concern to scholars of American history and literature. Quixotic Fictions reaffirms the global reach of Cervantes's influence and explores the complex, contradictory ways in which Don Quixote helped shape American fiction at a formative moment in its development. |
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... Quixote is most noticeable on the level of narrative type and literary genre . Other literary modes are simply imbedded in the story of Quixote's adventures . He meets spokesmen for the pastoral romance , for the ballad , for the ...
... Quixote is most noticeable on the level of narrative type and literary genre . Other literary modes are simply imbedded in the story of Quixote's adventures . He meets spokesmen for the pastoral romance , for the ballad , for the ...
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... Quixote's popularity in eighteenth - century Britain , and the significance of British translations , fictions , and literary criti- cism in the early republic , Chapter 1 discusses changing perceptions of Don Quixote in eighteenth ...
... Quixote's popularity in eighteenth - century Britain , and the significance of British translations , fictions , and literary criti- cism in the early republic , Chapter 1 discusses changing perceptions of Don Quixote in eighteenth ...
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... Quixote's - and Cervantes's - world and aspirations'.8 In Cervantes , the Novel , and the New World , Diana de Armas Wilson has likewise argued that ' Cervan- tes's novels were stimulated by the geographical excitement of a new world ...
... Quixote's - and Cervantes's - world and aspirations'.8 In Cervantes , the Novel , and the New World , Diana de Armas Wilson has likewise argued that ' Cervan- tes's novels were stimulated by the geographical excitement of a new world ...
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Sarah F. Wood. discovered world managed to exceed even the Quixote's visionary speculations and extravagant expectations . The Don Quixote that Washington encountered - like the royal ass and the Genoese Columbus - was no pureblooded ...
Sarah F. Wood. discovered world managed to exceed even the Quixote's visionary speculations and extravagant expectations . The Don Quixote that Washington encountered - like the royal ass and the Genoese Columbus - was no pureblooded ...
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... Quixote's acquaintance in his native tongue , but in English . The Don Quixote they came to know was mediated through the eyes and minds of the English translators whose works were sold in American bookshops , the English novelists ...
... Quixote's acquaintance in his native tongue , but in English . The Don Quixote they came to know was mediated through the eyes and minds of the English translators whose works were sold in American bookshops , the English novelists ...
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Transatlantic Cervantics Don Quixote in the New Republic | 37 |
City on the Hill Quixote in the Cave The Politics of Retreat in the Fiction of Hugh Henry Brackenridge | 75 |
An Aliens Act of Sedition Transatlantic peculiarities and North African Attachments in The Algerine Captive | 107 |
Private Properties Public Nuisance Arthur Mervyn and the Rise and Fall of a Republican Quixote | 138 |
Nobodys Dulcinea Romantic Fictions and Republican Mothers in Tabitha Gilman Tenneys Female Quixotism | 164 |
The Underwhelming History of Americas Overbearing Fathers A History of New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dy... | 199 |
Romantic Quixotes and Reconstructed Knights | 233 |
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Side 44 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Side 45 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Side 45 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Side xiii - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Side 75 - It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill.
Side 236 - If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun...
Side 220 - The morning after he had been installed in office, and at the moment that he was making his breakfast from a prodigious earthen dish, filled with milk and Indian pudding, he was...
Side 42 - An idea, strange as it is visionary, has entered into the minds of the generality of mankind, that empire is travelling westward; and every one is looking forward with eager and impatient expectation to that destined moment when America is to give law to the rest of the world.