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

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
Otros Autores: Hanlon, Aaron R. 1982- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press 2020
Charlottesville : 2019.
Materias:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616. > Don Quixote.
American fiction > Spanish influences.
English fiction > Spanish influences.
Exceptionalism in literature.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Characters and characteristics in literature
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Don Quixote
enlightenment
Jonathan Swift
Washington Irving
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654719006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a world of disorderly notions
  • Part I: The character of quixotism. Quixotic exceptionalism
  • Anatomy of quixotism
  • Character and front matters
  • Relational quixotism
  • Part II: The character of exceptionalism. Gulliver and English exceptionalism
  • Underhill and American exceptionalism
  • Adams, Farrago, and civic exceptionalism
  • Arabella, Dorcasina, and domestic exceptionalism
  • Launcelot and juridical exceptionalism
  • Knickerbocker and reactionary exceptionalism
  • Marauder and radical exceptionalism
  • Coda: quixotism, phenomenology, epistemology.

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