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The Female Quixote

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775415138

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The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote. While the latter mistook himself for the hero of a Romance, Arabella believes she is the fair maiden. She believes she can fell a hero with one look and that any number of lovers would be happy to suffer on her behalf.

The Female Quixote

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141958613

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Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many scrapes and mortifications ensue - all men seem like predators wishing to ravish her, she mistakes a cross-dressing prostitute for a distressed gentlewoman, and she risks her life by throwing herself into the Thames to avoid a potential seducer. Can Arabella be cured of her romantic delusions? An immediate success when it first appeared in 1752, The Female Quixote is a wonderfully high-spirited parody of the style of Cervantes, and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society.

The Female Quixote

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1752
Category : American authors
ISBN : BL:A0022432977

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Female Quixote (Penguin Classics)

Author : Charlotte Lennox (ca)
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427018137

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The Female Quixote

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154264691X

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The Female Quixote Or, The Adventures of Arabella Charlotte Lennox The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella was a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two years after she wrote her first novel, The Life of Harriot Stuart, it was her best known and most celebrated work. It was approved by both Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson, applauded by Samuel Johnson, and used as a model by Jane Austen for her famous work, Northanger Abbey. It has been called a burlesque, "satirical harlequinade," and a depiction of the real power of females. While some dismissed Arabella as a coquette who simply used romance as a tool, Scott Paul Gordon said that she "exercises immense power without any consciousness of doing so." Norma Clarke has ranked it with Clarissa, Tom Jones, and Roderick Random as one of the "defining texts in the development of the novel in the eighteenth century." Arabella, the heroine of the novel, was brought up by her widowed father in a remote English castle, where she reads many French romance novels, and imagining them to be historically accurate, expects her life to be equally adventurous and romantic. When her father dies, he declared that she would lose part of her estate if she did not marry her cousin Glanville. After imagining wild fantasies for herself in the country, she visits Bath and London. Glanville is concerned at her mistaken ideas, but continues to love her, while Sir George Bellmour, his friend, attempts to court her in the same chivalric language and high-flown style as in the novels. When she throws herself into Thames in an attempt to flee from horsemen whom she mistakes to be "ravishers" in an imitation of Clelie, she becomes weak and ill. This action might have been inspired by the French satire The Mock-Clielia, in which the heroine "rode at full speed towards the great Canal which she took for the Tyber, and whereinto she threw her self, that she might swim over in imitation of Clelia whom she believed herself to be. The Doctor reasons with her and makes her come to an understanding of the clash of mundane reality and literary illusion, at which she finally accepts Glanville's hand and marries him. In the novel, Arabella often speaks lengthily in defence and about the novels and their heroines.

The Female Quixote

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0461541211

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The Female Quixote: or, the Adventures of Arabella

Author : Lennox, Charlotte
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773137513

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The Female Quixote: or, the Adventures of Arabella by Lennox, Charlotte Pdf

The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella was a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two years after she wrote her first novel, The Life of Harriot Stuart, it was her best known and most celebrated work. It was approved by both Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson, applauded by Samuel Johnson, and used as a model by Jane Austen for her famous work, Northanger Abbey.

The Female Quixote

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1763
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001940995

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The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192835726

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The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella by Charlotte Lennox Pdf

Reading romance novels gives Arabella, an eighteenth century lady, a distorted perception of reality

Charlotte Lennox

Author : Susan Carlile
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442617087

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Charlotte Lennox by Susan Carlile Pdf

Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, especially in her novels Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility. Susan Carlile’s biography places Lennox in the context of intellectual and cultural history and focuses on her role as a central figure in the professionalization of authorship in England. Lennox participated in the most important literary and social discussions of her time, including debates concerning female authorship, the elevation of Shakespeare to national poet, and the role of periodicals as didactic texts for an increasingly literate population. Lennox also contributed to making Greek drama available for English-language audiences and pioneered the serialization of novels in magazines. Carlile’s work is the first biographical treatment to consider a new cache of correspondence released in the 1970s and reveals how Lennox was part of an ambitious and progressive literary and social movement.

The Female Quixote ...

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10747286

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The Female Quixote

Author : Lennox Charlotte
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041849345

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Originally published in 1752, The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of Arabella was Lennox's second and most successful novel. Arabella's story inverts that of Don Quixote: as the Don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden of a Romance. Adventure, sword fights, and confusion ensue.

Women and Romance

Author : Laurie Langbauer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501723063

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Women and Romance by Laurie Langbauer Pdf

According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.

Henrietta

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1761
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:400230631

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