Add to ORKGIn Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s conception of England as an orderly, unromantic site of commercial trade. Arabella’s romances prompt her to expect certain power structures from English society; she invites others to see her body as a spectacle and expects that her actions will solidify her status as a powerful woman. Yet Lennox reveals that English society sees Arabella’s body not as powerful, but as an object upon which they may construct their own potential site for the exchange of knowledge, an objectification that neither Arabella nor Lennox are prepared to accept. I argue that Lennox teaches her reader to read English social spaces in terms of discourses of power, ther...
As an orphan under the care of her selfish aunt who pressures her to convert to Catholicism and ente...
The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how t...
Fictional depictions of feminine reading and writing practices reveal transformations in expectation...
In Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s ...
In Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s ...
These two novels offer clues to the idea of the reader and to the understanding of the nature of the...
In recent years, studies of Charlotte Lennox\u27s The Female Quixote (1752) have focused largely on ...
[Abstract] Women writers in eighteenth century England had to deal with accusations of immorality an...
This essay argues that Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752) s...
The essay provides a reading of Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752) considering it as a sor...
Drawing on a huge amount of early eighteenth-century fictional writings by women (ranging from ficti...
Trapped within societal expectations along with its rigid gender and class distinctions, the represe...
Charlotte Lennox (c. 1729-1804) was prominent in the eighteenth century but now is known only for he...
Charlotte Lennox’s novel The Female Quixote chronicles the adventures of a young woman who, like Don...
The primary obstacle to analyzing the political and educational statements found in eighteenth-centu...
As an orphan under the care of her selfish aunt who pressures her to convert to Catholicism and ente...
The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how t...
Fictional depictions of feminine reading and writing practices reveal transformations in expectation...
In Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s ...
In Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s ...
These two novels offer clues to the idea of the reader and to the understanding of the nature of the...
In recent years, studies of Charlotte Lennox\u27s The Female Quixote (1752) have focused largely on ...
[Abstract] Women writers in eighteenth century England had to deal with accusations of immorality an...
This essay argues that Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752) s...
The essay provides a reading of Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752) considering it as a sor...
Drawing on a huge amount of early eighteenth-century fictional writings by women (ranging from ficti...
Trapped within societal expectations along with its rigid gender and class distinctions, the represe...
Charlotte Lennox (c. 1729-1804) was prominent in the eighteenth century but now is known only for he...
Charlotte Lennox’s novel The Female Quixote chronicles the adventures of a young woman who, like Don...
The primary obstacle to analyzing the political and educational statements found in eighteenth-centu...
As an orphan under the care of her selfish aunt who pressures her to convert to Catholicism and ente...
The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how t...
Fictional depictions of feminine reading and writing practices reveal transformations in expectation...