The only book recognizing and documenting the French creation of the Romantic interpretation of Don Quixote. Interdisciplinary, combining Jansenism’s social adaptation of Pascal’s philosophy with the historical circumstances in Britain that later generated a distinct but interconnected version of the Don Quixote myth.  Meer

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.  Meer