The Practice of Quixotism

Postmodern Theory and Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing

S. Gordon

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• ISBN:
  9780230601536
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism Theory
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Practice of Quixotism
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Quixote Trope
• Chapter 1 Historicizing Quixote and the Scandal of Quixotism
• Chapter 2 Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote and Orthodox Quixotism
• Chapter 3 Suspicion and Experience in Sarah Fielding’s David Simple
• Chapter 4 Mary Wortley Montagu and the Quixotic Dream of Objectivity
• Chapter 5 Quixotic Perception in Sophia Lee’s The Recess
• Chapter 6 Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho and the Practice of Quixotism
• Epilogue: Beyond Quixotism?: Quixotism and Contemporary Theory
• Notes
• Index