Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815OUP Oxford, 03.11.2005 - 314 Seiten 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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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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Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815 Sarah F. Wood,Sarah Florence Wood Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adventures Algerine Captive Algiers American Literature Anthology and Boston argued Arthur Mervyn benevolence Benjamin Rush Boston Review Brackenridge British Captain Farrago Cave of Vanhest century Cervantes Chapter character Charles Brockden Brown classical Clemenza colony comic critics cultural declares Diedrich Don Quixote Dorcasina Dutch early republic eighteenth-century English Enlightenment Essays extravagant father Federalist Female Quixotism figure frontispiece George Washington governor hero heroine History Hugh Henry Brackenridge Ibid ideals ideological imagination Irving's James John Adams Knickerbocker Knickerbocker's knight Letter literary Modern Chivalry Monthly Anthology moral narrative narrator nation novel O'Regan Philadelphia political published Quixote's Quixotic fiction readers republican mother republican motherhood Revolutionary romance Sancho Panza satire sentimental slave Smollett's social society Spanish squire story Tabitha tale Teague Tenney Tenney's Thomas Jefferson Tobias Smollett translation turn Tyler's United University Press Updike Underhill Updike's virtue Volume Washington Irving William women writing
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite xiii - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.