Quixotic “Stranger-ness” and Its Critical Potentialities in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote
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This essay revisits the question of genre and its link to the question of gender, an issue that has already been much discussed in the criticism of Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote. While partly turning to the previous critical approaches to Lennox’s text, it attempts to add a new perspective by foregrounding Arabella’s quixotic “stranger-ness” and its critical potentialities. This essay begins by considering what characterizes Arabella’s paternal home whose disagreeable realities precondition Arabella to be a female Quixote. Arabella’s firm belief in the factuality of romances and her desire to be a romance heroine make her a stranger both in a temporal and a spatial sense. But her “stranger-ness” turns out to be more than quixotic. It provides her with critical perspectives on gender relations in the real world and on social conditions that render women into nobodies. This essay also looks at the debate between Arabella and the Doctor about the issue of fictionality, which shows that both Arabella and the novel cannot make a clean break with the romance genre. This essay ends with the suggestion that Arabella’s cure is not a concluding solution to what her “stranger-ness” brings up.
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This essay revisits the question of genre and its link to the question of gender, an issue that has already been much discussed in the criticism of Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote. While partly turning to the previous critical approaches to Lennox’s text, it attempts to add a new perspective by foregrounding Arabella’s quixotic “stranger-ness” and its critical potentialities. This essay begins by considering what characterizes Arabella’s paternal home whose disagreeable realities precondition Arabella to be a female Quixote. Arabella’s firm belief in the factuality of romances and her desire to be a romance heroine make her a stranger both in a temporal and a spatial sense. But her “stranger-ness” turns out to be more than quixotic. It provides her with critical perspectives on gender relations in the real world and on social conditions that render women into nobodies. This essay also looks at the debate between Arabella and the Doctor about the issue of fictionality, which shows that both Arabella and the novel cannot make a clean break with the romance genre. This essay ends with the suggestion that Arabella’s cure is not a concluding solution to what her “stranger-ness” brings up.
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