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Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815 /

Quixotic 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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, Sarah Florence
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An 'inconsistent discourse' : Don Quixote in British letters
  • Transatlantic Cervantics : Don Quixote in the New Republic
  • City on the hill, Quixote in the cave : the politics of retreat in the fiction of Hugh Henry Brackenridge
  • An alien's act of sedition : 'trans-Atlantic peculiarities' and North African attachments in The Algerian captive
  • Private properties, public nuisance : Arthur Mervyn and the rise and fall of a Republican Quixote
  • Nobody's Dulcinea : romantic fictions and Republican mothers in Tabitha Gilman Tenney's Female Quixoticism
  • 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.