Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815

Name: Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815
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ISBN: 9780199273157

ISBN-10: 0199273154

ISBN-13: 9780199273157

Edition: 2005

Authors: Sarah F. Wood

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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…

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List price: $190.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.82" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English




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