«Your wines are as foreign as your sentiments»the Quixote as literary and political alien in the English anti-Jacobin novel
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Universidad de Salamanca
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ISSN: 0210-7287
Année de publication: 2011
Titre de la publication: Xenografías
Número: 1
Pages: 111-132
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: 1616: Anuario de la Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada
Résumé
The present paper discusses three anti-jacobin novels, The History of Sir George Warrington, or the Political Quixote (1797), The Infernal Quixote. A Tale of the Day (1801), and The Heroine, or Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader (1813), and their contribution to the tradition of quixotism in British literature by means of their conception of the Quixote as a doubly-estranged character, both from an epistemological and a political point of view, and of their negative reading of the quixotic foreignness in the context of the aftermath to the French Revolution in Great Britain, in clear contrast to the radical and idealized interpretation of the Quixote developed coevally at this time.