Sidekicks in American literature
By: Ann Cameron.
Series: Studies in American literature ;; v. 55; Studies in American literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ;; v. 55.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Characters -- Sancho Panza; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Influence; American fiction -- History and criticism; Sidekicks in literature; American fiction -- Spanish influences; Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character); Master and servant in literature; Male friendship in literature; Split self in literature; Servants in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-175)and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 FROM SANCHO TO PANCHO; title: The Origins of the 'Sidekick'; title: Sancho; title: Don Quixote and American Writers; title: The Role of the Sidekick; title: Benefits for the Sidekick; title: The Deceptive Superiority of the Master; title: Variations on the Sidekick; title: Notes; title: Works Cited; title: CHAPTER 2 THE POWER OF DELUSION; title: Don Quixote Redux; title: The Nature of Quixotism; title: Rewriting the World; title: The Pragmatism of Folly; title: The Mediator for the Mistress; title: The Cure is Worse than the Disease; title: The Sidekick Ascending; title: Notes; title: Works Cited; title: CHAPTER 3 THE AGENT OF DISORDER; title: The Daemon and the Demon; title: Paul and Abel; title: The Black Dwarf; title: The Daemonic Dr. Chillingworth; title: Mutual Victims; title: Notes; title: Works Cited; title: CHAPTER 4 THE SAGE AND THE SCOUT; title: The Homespun Scout; title: The Disruption of Authority; title: The Clash between North and South; title: The Plantation Novel and the Cavalier; title: Miseducation; title: The Failure of the Pastoral; title: The Multiple Mentor as a Reaction to Change; title: Notes; title: Works Cited; title: CHAPTER 5 A SOCIETY OF TWO: HUCK AND JIM; title: Huck and Jim; title: What Huck and Jim are Not; title: Huck Finn and The Dialogic Imagination; title: A Respite from the World; title: Notes; title: Works Cited; title: CONCLUSION.