“사랑의 제국”과 애러벨라의 광기: 샬롯 레넉스의 『 여성 키호테 』
“The Empire of Love” and Arabella's Madness: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote
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As Samuel Johnson in his “Dedication” describes the work as “this subtil[sic] Sophistry of Desire,” Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote is a story of a woman who is completely immersed in romance and expresses her polymorphous desires through mimicking the romantic codes of manners she has acquired by her romance reading. Lennox’s attempt to portray an individual woman who with her excessive imaginative power fanatically worships the “Empire of Love” is in itself a unique and daring one in the age of sexual restrictions, especially her creation of a female Quixote with her androgynous attitude and homoerotic attraction to women. The ultimate happy ending of the novel, however, which apparently ‘cures’ Arabella from her madness and makes her marry Glanville, signifies the disappearance of this unique and singular woman, Arabella; she is in the end drastically reduced to a very ordinary human being silenced and ‘cured’ by the Doctor. Arabella’s silence also coincides with that of the original and creative writer Lennox, who could not but follow the dominant rules of writing under the aegis of the gigantic male writers. This paper concentrates on examining how Arabella expresses her repressed desires through imitating romantic codes of conduct, how her hysteric madness seems to be ‘cured’ by the Doctor, and how she turns out in the end after the ‘cure.’
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As Samuel Johnson in his “Dedication” describes the work as “this subtil[sic] Sophistry of Desire,” Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote is a story of a woman who is completely immersed in romance and expresses her polymorphous desires through mimicking the romantic codes of manners she has acquired by her romance reading. Lennox’s attempt to portray an individual woman who with her excessive imaginative power fanatically worships the “Empire of Love” is in itself a unique and daring one in the age of sexual restrictions, especially her creation of a female Quixote with her androgynous attitude and homoerotic attraction to women. The ultimate happy ending of the novel, however, which apparently ‘cures’ Arabella from her madness and makes her marry Glanville, signifies the disappearance of this unique and singular woman, Arabella; she is in the end drastically reduced to a very ordinary human being silenced and ‘cured’ by the Doctor. Arabella’s silence also coincides with that of the original and creative writer Lennox, who could not but follow the dominant rules of writing under the aegis of the gigantic male writers. This paper concentrates on examining how Arabella expresses her repressed desires through imitating romantic codes of conduct, how her hysteric madness seems to be ‘cured’ by the Doctor, and how she turns out in the end after the ‘cure.’
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