Female Quixote (Penguin Classics)

Female Quixote (Penguin Classics) PDF Author: Charlotte Lennox (ca)
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The Female Quixote: or, the Adventures of Arabella

The Female Quixote: or, the Adventures of Arabella PDF Author: Lennox, Charlotte
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 1773137514
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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.

Female Quixote (Penguin Classics)

Female Quixote (Penguin Classics) PDF Author: Charlotte Lennox (ca)
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The Female Quixote

The Female Quixote PDF Author: Charlotte Lennox
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ISBN: 3752409940
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Pages : 345

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Reproduction of the original: The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox

Penguin Classics Introduction to The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Classics Introduction to The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox (Penguin Classics) PDF Author: Amanda Gilroy
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The Female Quixote

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The Female Quixote; Or, The Adventures of Arabella

The Female Quixote; Or, The Adventures of Arabella PDF Author: Charlotte Lennox
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The Female Quixote: Edited with Notes by Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven with an Introduction by Amanda Gilroy (Penguin Classics).

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The Female Quixote

The Female Quixote PDF Author: Charlotte Lennox
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ISBN: 9781542646918
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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.

The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella

The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella PDF Author: Charlotte Lennox
Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781420943382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Little is definitively known about Charlotte Lennox (1730?-1804) before the publication of her novels and poetry other than she was probably born in Gibraltar to the English captain-lieutenant, James Ramsay, and moved to New York when she was ten. It is thought that she spent much of her childhood reading romance novels as a solution to the boredom of living at small frontier outposts. She was particularly drawn to Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote," and in 1752 she published "The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella" to enthusiastic reception. The work is part imitation and part commentary on the original, casting a privileged young daughter of a marquis, Arabella, as the novel's heroine. Just like Don Quixote, Arabella embarks on a series of adventures in the countryside, all the while mistakenly thinking herself to be the archetypal maiden of a Romance. This novel served as the basis for Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey."

The Female Quixote; Or, The Adventures of Arabella

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