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Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815 / Sarah F. Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Sarah Florence, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Influence.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
- American literature--Spanish influences.
- American literature.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) "Broken heads and bloated tales : Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815"--University of London, 2003.
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-276) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-04161-X
- 1-280-75782-5
- 0-19-151516-7
- 1-4294-7077-1
- OCLC:
- 139984611
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