Literary and Historical Women Readers in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England and Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote
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Examining the cultural and literary trope of the female Quixote in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, this study attempts to identify the ways in which Charlotte Lennox and other contemporary writers reflect and mediate the period’s prevailing views of women’s reading practices. It also traces how the Quixotic reader was transformed into the gendered trope and locates Lennox’s work within the tradition of English sister Quixotes. Lennox’s pioneering interrogation about the nature of her heroine’s Quixotism not only challenges the conduct book’s normative view of female reading, but also illuminates the nature of reading’s double potentials for women readers. Lennox’s work thus serves as a revealing reference to later female Quixotes in English fiction, as they all share the fate with their historical readers who were then living and discursive participants in the period’s cultural battle over how to read.
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Examining the cultural and literary trope of the female Quixote in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, this study attempts to identify the ways in which Charlotte Lennox and other contemporary writers reflect and mediate the period’s prevailing views of women’s reading practices. It also traces how the Quixotic reader was transformed into the gendered trope and locates Lennox’s work within the tradition of English sister Quixotes. Lennox’s pioneering interrogation about the nature of her heroine’s Quixotism not only challenges the conduct book’s normative view of female reading, but also illuminates the nature of reading’s double potentials for women readers. Lennox’s work thus serves as a revealing reference to later female Quixotes in English fiction, as they all share the fate with their historical readers who were then living and discursive participants in the period’s cultural battle over how to read.
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