Quixotic Legacy: The Female Quixote and the Professional Woman Writer
This essay argues that Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752) served as a fulcrum in eighteenth-century literary history by providing a figuration of the female quixote for subsequent women novelists who were keen to court absorbed readers on the one hand while c...
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Ghent University
2015-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.authorship.ugent.be/article/view/1108 |