The Female Quixote

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775415139
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Quixote written by Charlotte Lennox and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote. While the latter mistook himself for the hero of a Romance, Arabella believes she is the fair maiden. She believes she can fell a hero with one look and that any number of lovers would be happy to suffer on her behalf.

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513285068
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Quixote written by Charlotte Lennox and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Quixote (1752) is a novel by Charlotte Lennox. A parody of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Lennox’s novel was an immediate critical and commercial success. Boosted by praise from Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Richardson, The Female Quixote launched Lennox’s career as a leading author of English plays, poetry, and novels. Although she failed to regain her early heights as an author, Lennox and her work have undergone positive reappraisal by twentieth century feminist scholars, securing her long-underrecognized reputation as an important precursor to Jane Austen and countless other writers.Raised in a remote English castle by her father, Arabella makes up for a lack of formal education with an endless appetite for French romance novels. Although exceedingly intelligent, her lack of experience and overactive imagination lead her to fantasize about the world outside. Envisioning a life of adventure and romance, she receives a rude awakening when, upon the death of her father, she is to be left his estate on the condition she marry her cousin Glanville. Making her way to London via Bath, Arabella makes a positive impression on the young gentleman, who recognizes her innocence but remains determined to love her. As he attempts to educate her on the realities of city life, his friend Sir George Bellmour tries to take advantage of her through a courtship veiled in the chivalry of her beloved novels. When a case of mistaken identity leads to Arabella being gravely injured, Glanville is forced to decide whether the young woman he cares for will ever manage to come to terms with their shared reality. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Quixote written by Charlotte Lennox and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780461541212
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Quixote written by Charlotte Lennox and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Author : Charlotte Lennox (ca)
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427018138
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Quixote (Penguin Classics) written by Charlotte Lennox (ca) and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542646918
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Quixote written by Charlotte Lennox and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Quixote Or, The Adventures of Arabella Charlotte Lennox The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella was a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two years after she wrote her first novel, The Life of Harriot Stuart, it was her best known and most celebrated work. It was approved by both Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson, applauded by Samuel Johnson, and used as a model by Jane Austen for her famous work, Northanger Abbey. It has been called a burlesque, "satirical harlequinade," and a depiction of the real power of females. While some dismissed Arabella as a coquette who simply used romance as a tool, Scott Paul Gordon said that she "exercises immense power without any consciousness of doing so." Norma Clarke has ranked it with Clarissa, Tom Jones, and Roderick Random as one of the "defining texts in the development of the novel in the eighteenth century." Arabella, the heroine of the novel, was brought up by her widowed father in a remote English castle, where she reads many French romance novels, and imagining them to be historically accurate, expects her life to be equally adventurous and romantic. When her father dies, he declared that she would lose part of her estate if she did not marry her cousin Glanville. After imagining wild fantasies for herself in the country, she visits Bath and London. Glanville is concerned at her mistaken ideas, but continues to love her, while Sir George Bellmour, his friend, attempts to court her in the same chivalric language and high-flown style as in the novels. When she throws herself into Thames in an attempt to flee from horsemen whom she mistakes to be "ravishers" in an imitation of Clelie, she becomes weak and ill. This action might have been inspired by the French satire The Mock-Clielia, in which the heroine "rode at full speed towards the great Canal which she took for the Tyber, and whereinto she threw her self, that she might swim over in imitation of Clelia whom she believed herself to be. The Doctor reasons with her and makes her come to an understanding of the clash of mundane reality and literary illusion, at which she finally accepts Glanville's hand and marries him. In the novel, Arabella often speaks lengthily in defence and about the novels and their heroines.

Author : Lennox, Charlotte
Publisher : Aegitas
ISBN 13 : 1773137514
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Quixote: or, the Adventures of Arabella written by Lennox, Charlotte and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella was a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two years after she wrote her first novel, The Life of Harriot Stuart, it was her best known and most celebrated work. It was approved by both Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson, applauded by Samuel Johnson, and used as a model by Jane Austen for her famous work, Northanger Abbey.

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Quixote written by Charlotte Lennox and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah L. Ross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183162
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Excellence of Falsehood written by Deborah L. Ross and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only excellence of falsehood... is its resemblance to truth," proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks—repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century—are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels. Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Fanny Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen did not take the clergyman's advice to heart. To them, the "falsehood" of romance was by no means self-evident, nor was the superior "excellence" of the novel. In theory, many of them accepted the distinction, but their works combined aspects of the romance and the novel in ways that brought them into conflict with the critical establishment. The texts discussed here illustrate a process of development both in the novel and in the conditions of women's lives. Tensions between romance and realism enabled women writers to question official versions of reality and to measure life against a romance ideal. By altering readers' perceptions and judgments, these authors gradually altered the reality that novels "resemble" and set up new combinations of romance and realism for future writers. This give-and-take between fiction and life is seen most dramatically in the way a "romantic" notion gradually comes to be treated in novels as both "real" and right. Ross follows one such notion—that women have matrimonial preferences—to the point where romance and reality merge. Ross's study brings to light an important part of the history of the novel not yet incorporated in theories and histories of the genre.

Author : Susan Carlile
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144261708X
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Lennox written by Susan Carlile and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, especially in her novels Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility. Susan Carlile’s biography places Lennox in the context of intellectual and cultural history and focuses on her role as a central figure in the professionalization of authorship in England. Lennox participated in the most important literary and social discussions of her time, including debates concerning female authorship, the elevation of Shakespeare to national poet, and the role of periodicals as didactic texts for an increasingly literate population. Lennox also contributed to making Greek drama available for English-language audiences and pioneered the serialization of novels in magazines. Carlile’s work is the first biographical treatment to consider a new cache of correspondence released in the 1970s and reveals how Lennox was part of an ambitious and progressive literary and social movement.