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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hanlon, Aaron R. (Aaron Raymond), 1982– author.

Title: A world of disorderly notions : Quixote and the logic of exceptionalism / Aaron R. Hanlon.

Description: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: lccn 2018044533 | isbn 9780813942162 (cloth : alk. paper) | isbn 9780813942179 (ebook)

Subjects: lcsh: English fiction—18th century—History and criticism—Theory, etc. | Characters and characteristics in literature | American fiction—19th century—History and criticism—Theory, etc. | Exceptionalism in literature. | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616. Don Quixote. | English fiction—Spanish influences. | American fiction—Spanish influences.

Classification: lcc pr858.c47 h36 2019 | ddc 823/.50927—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018044533

Cover art: From vol. 1 of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (London: Cadell & Davies, 1818). Proof with etched letters, print by Francis Engleheart, after Robert Smirke. (Image © Trustees of the British Museum)