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A World of Disorderly Notions : Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism /

"From Jonathan Swift to Thomas Jefferson, those looking to propose and justify exceptions to social and political norms turned to Cervantes's notoriously mad comic hero as a model, yielding an explosion of imitations of Quixote in fiction and polemical writing; this book examines the excep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hanlon, Aaron R. (Aaron Raymond), 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"From Jonathan Swift to Thomas Jefferson, those looking to propose and justify exceptions to social and political norms turned to Cervantes's notoriously mad comic hero as a model, yielding an explosion of imitations of Quixote in fiction and polemical writing; this book examines the exceptionalist character of Quixote and tells the story of how quixotism became political and politicized"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780813942179