Don Quixote and the Peninsular War

Authors

  • Ceferino Caro López

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2009.002

Keywords:

Don Quixote, Napoleon, Propaganda, Peninsular War

Abstract


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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Published

2009-12-30

How to Cite

Caro López, C. (2009). Don Quixote and the Peninsular War. Anales Cervantinos, 41, 39–61. https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2009.002

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Studies

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