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The practice of quixotism Postmodern theory and eighteenth-century women's writing /

Using postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we hav...

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Main Authors: Gordon, Scott Paul
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literary theory > c 1700 to c 1800
Gender studies, gender groups > c 1700 to c 1800
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230601536
Summary: Using postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we have read.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2006.
Carrier Form: 336 p.
ISBN: 9781403974440
9780230601536 :
0230601537 :
CLC: I11
Contents: Introduction: The Quixote Trope * Historicizing Quixote and the Scandal of Quixotism * Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote and Orthodox Quixotism * Suspicion and Experience in Sarah Fielding's David Simple * Mary Wortley Montagu and the Quixotic Dream of Objectivity * Quixotic Perception in Sophia Lee's The Recess * Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and the Practice of Quixotism * Epilogue: Beyond Quixotism?: Quixotism and Contemporary Theory.

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