Unworthy Global Citizens

This article considers the influence of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605–15), on Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive (1797), taking particular account of the role of the quixotic conversion scene in The Algerine Captive's contentious ending. Proceeding from a discussion of 'quixotic conversion' and of the ways in which Tyler's anti-hero remains quixotic throughout the novel, this article argues that, despite critical tendencies to read Tyler's ending as an endorsement of national unity in the early Republic, The Algerine Captive's scope of concerns is actually much more global than our critical responses would suggest.Keywords: QuixotequixoticThe Algerine Captivecaptivity narrativeBarbarynarrativetransnationalnationalismconversion sceneUpdike Underhillliterary influence Additional informationNotes on contributorsAaron HanlonAaron Hanlon is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Oxford. His dissertation (in progress), 'Quixotic Exceptionalism: British and US Co-narratives 1713–1823', examines relationships between literary and political narratives of exceptionalism in the numerous long-eighteenth-century British and American reconfigurations of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. He works and teaches more broadly on Atlantic literatures and cultures in the long eighteenth century, transatlantic influences on the early American novel, and intersections of literature, political economy, and geopolitics

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