This collection of specially commissioned essays intends to show the enormous influence that Cervantes’ works, first and foremost «Don Quijote», have had on novelists, playwrights, and poets from English Renaissance up to the major British, South African and American writers of the twentieth century.

CONTENTS

Preface

Yumiko Yamada: Ben Jonson: A Neoclassical Response to Cervantes — Werner von Koppenfels: Samuel Butler’s Hudibras: A Quixotic Perspectiv of Civil War — Raimund Borgmeier: Henry Fielding and his Spanish Model: ‘Our English Cervantes’ — Felicitas Kleber: Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shandy and Don Quixote — Pedro Javier Pardo: Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker and the Cervantine Tradition in Eighteenth Century England — Scott Paul Gordon: Female Quixotism: Charlotte Lennox and Tabitha Tenney — Paul Goetsch: Charles Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers and Don Quixote — Henry B. Wonham: Mark Twain: The American Cervantes — Elmar Schenkel: G. K. Chesterton: The Return of Don Quixote — Darío Fernández-Morera & Michael Hanke: Roy Campbell: Quixote Redivivus — Montserrat Ginés: Walker Percy’s Enraged and Bemused Quixotes

Select Bibliography — Notes on Contibutors