A World of Disorderly Notions : Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism / / Aaron R. Hanlon.
"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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Place / Publishing House: | Charlottesville : : University of Virginia Press,, 2019. Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2019 ©2019. |
Year of Publication: | 2020 2019 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.