Don Quixote and the Peninsular War
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https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2009.002Keywords:
Don Quixote, Napoleon, Propaganda, Peninsular WarAbstract
In 1808 some political writers appealed to the character of Don Quixote in order to write patriotic libels in which Napoleon was compared to the Knight from La Mancha. The analysis of those texts will show the ambiguity of the meaning of Cervantes’s creature, as it was sometimes thought to be a positive character, whereas in other occasions it was seen as the bearer of negative connotations. Thus criticism to Napoleon was built, according to different cases, on the identification or the opposition of the two figures.
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