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Inventing the Romantic Don Quixote in France - Jansenists, Rousseau, and British Quixotism (Hardcover)
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Inventing the Romantic Don Quixote in France - Jansenists, Rousseau, and British Quixotism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
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Cervantes' now mythical character of Don Quixote began far
differently from the altruistic righter of wrongs we know today.
The transformation from mad highway robber to secular saint took
place in the Romantic Era, but how and where it began has just
begun to be understood. France and England played major roles, but,
contrary to earlier literary historians, Pascal, Racine, Rousseau
and the Jansenists scooped Henry and Sarah Fielding. Jansenism, a
persecuted puritanical and intellectual group linked to Pascal,
identified itself with Don Quixote's virtues, excused his vices,
and wrote a game-changing sequel mediated by the transformative
powers of a sorcerer from Commedia dell'Arte. As an early Romantic,
Rousseau was attracted to the hero's fertile imagination and tender
love for Dulcinea, foregrounding the would-be knight's quest in a
play and his best-selling novel, Julie. Sarah Fielding reacted
similarly, basing her utopian novel David Simple on the Jansenist
concept of quixotic trust in others. Colahan here reproduces and
explains for the first time the extremely rare original
illustrations of the French sequel to Cervantes' novel, and
documents the fortunes in French culture of the magician at the
heart of the Romantic Quixote.
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