Clark Colahan

Inventing the Romantic Don Quixote in France (eBook, ePUB)

Jansenists, Rousseau, and British Quixotism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The evolving adventures and myth of Don Quixote from farcical social criticism to Romantic idealism and then melancholy. Hagiography, Jansenism and its interpretation of Pascal's break with empiricism, Sarah and Henry Fielding, and Rousseau's use of the Jansenist sequel to Don Quixote.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000864274
• Artikelnr.: 68030423

Autorenporträt

Clark Colahan is Anderson Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Whitman College, USA. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on Spanish and French literature of the Early Modern period and the Enlightenment. He is the author of The Visions of Sor María de Agreda: Writing Knowledge and Power, the co-editor of Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque, and the co-author of the English translation of Cervantes' last novel, The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's foreword

Synopsis

Introduction

Chapter One: Hagiography and the religious side of Don Quixote's parodic journey



Cervantes' use of saints' lives

St. Thomas of Villanueva

Traits and adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho running parallel to those of Brother Thomas.



Chapter Two: The Jansenist milieu



The Filleau brothers and Jansenism

Jansenist teachings



Filleau de la Chaise's essay on Pascal's Pensées

Chapter Three: Don Quixote's rise toward moral exemplarity

A Jansenist tone

Protestant affinities



Dulcinea and faith



Chapter Four: Don Quixote as high moral achiever

Transforming Don Quixote and Sancho



Don Quixote doing good in the world, mostly



Pride goes before a fall

Chapter Five: Sancho as backsliding social climber

Toward the utopia of fraternity and equality

Increasing day by (every other) day in wisdom and strength

Chapter Six: Reason, trust, and which way lies happiness?

Reason



Parafaragaramus and confusing choices



Chapter Seven: Magicians in Commedia dell'Arte and the Quixote sequel



"The Fake Necromancer"

Practical jokers

"Mother Goose" and "The Barrel"

The magician as director of tragi-comedy



Chapter Eight: Rousseau's recasting of Parafaragaramus



Trickery versus tenderness

Taking courage through trust

Justice versus sadism in society

Chapter Nine: Magician Overboard Downstream



Benevolent and effective



All-knowing denouncer of misdeeds

Active pursuer of delinquents

Thief of happiness

Stage magician

Object of Ridicule

Magician as dangerous scientist harming nature



Chapter Ten: The British Don Quixote: good-humored laughter and utopias

Sarah Fielding on selfless friendship and Henry Brooke on Don Quixote's humanitarianism



The split English reaction to Don Quixote's 'Enthusiasm'

Rousseau's impact

Coleridge and Don Quixote through the lens of German philosophy



Chapter Eleven: Rousseau's Julie - reliving Don Quixote's failed quest

Summary and Take-away

Works Cited

Index

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Author's foreword
Synopsis
Introduction
Chapter One: Hagiography and the religious side of Don Quixote's parodic
journey
Cervantes' use of saints' lives
St. Thomas of Villanueva
Traits and adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho running parallel to those
of Brother Thomas.
Chapter Two: The Jansenist milieu
The Filleau brothers and Jansenism
Jansenist teachings
Filleau de la Chaise's essay on Pascal's Pensées
Chapter Three: Don Quixote's rise toward moral exemplarity
A Jansenist tone
Protestant affinities
Dulcinea and faith
Chapter Four: Don Quixote as high moral achiever
Transforming Don Quixote and Sancho
Don Quixote doing good in the world, mostly
Pride goes before a fall
Chapter Five: Sancho as backsliding social climber
Toward the utopia of fraternity and equality
Increasing day by (every other) day in wisdom and strength
Chapter Six: Reason, trust, and which way lies happiness?
Reason
Parafaragaramus and confusing choices
Chapter Seven: Magicians in Commedia dell'Arte and the Quixote sequel
"The Fake Necromancer"
Practical jokers
"Mother Goose" and "The Barrel"
The magician as director of tragi-comedy
Chapter Eight: Rousseau's recasting of Parafaragaramus
Trickery versus tenderness
Taking courage through trust
Justice versus sadism in society
Chapter Nine: Magician Overboard Downstream
Benevolent and effective
All-knowing denouncer of misdeeds
Active pursuer of delinquents
Thief of happiness
Stage magician
Object of Ridicule
Magician as dangerous scientist harming nature
Chapter Ten: The British Don Quixote: good-humored laughter and utopias
Sarah Fielding on selfless friendship and Henry Brooke on Don Quixote's
humanitarianism
The split English reaction to Don Quixote's 'Enthusiasm'
Rousseau's impact
Coleridge and Don Quixote through the lens of German philosophy
Chapter Eleven: Rousseau's Julie - reliving Don Quixote's failed quest
Summary and Take-away
Works Cited
Index