Female Quixotism Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon

Name: Female Quixotism Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon
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ISBN: 9780195074147

ISBN-10: 0195074149

ISBN-13: 9780195074147

Edition: 1992

Authors: Tabitha Gilman Tenney, Jean Nienkamp, Andrea Collins, Cathy N. Davidson

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First published in 1801, Female Quixotism is a boisterous anti-romance and literary satire, in which Dorcas Sheldon (`Dorcasina') sets out to discover for herself the kind of passionate love affair portrayed in her favourite novels. Female Quixotism was written during a period of self-definition for the fledgeling American republic. Issues of class, gender, race and isolationism still relevant today are confronted in a manner unusual in other contemporary works, which frequently attacked romantic novels, even as they employed the sentimental and picaresque devices of the genre. Tenney uses literary references from Richardson, Sterne, and Milton, and, of course, Cervantes. However, it is as…

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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/5/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction


Note on the Text


Selected Bibliography


Chronology of Tabitha Gilman Tenney


Book I


Book II


Notes