Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. An 'Inconsistent Discourse': Don Quixote in British Letters -- 2. Transatlantic Cervantics: Don Quixote in the New Republic -- 3. City on the Hill, Quixote in the Cave: The Politics of Retreat in the Fiction of Hugh Henry Brackenridge -- 4. An Alien's Act of Sedition: 'Trans-atlantic peculiarities' and North African Attachments in The Algerine Captive -- 5. Private Properties, Public Nuisance: Arthur Mervyn and the Rise and Fall of a Republican Quixote -- 6. Nobody's Dulcinea: Romantic Fictions and Republican Mothers in Tabitha Gilman Tenney's Female Quixotism -- 7. The Underwhelming History of America's Overbearing Fathers: A History of New York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty -- Coda: Romantic Quixotes and Reconstructed Knights -- Works Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.