Amelia Dale

The Printed Reader

Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and embody their readings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781684481033
• ISBN-10: 1684481031
• Artikelnr.: 54474614

Autorenporträt

AMELIA DALE is a lecturer in the School of Languages and Literature at the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics in China. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations iii
Acknowledgements iv
Abbreviations vi
Introduction: Impressions and the Quixotic Reader 1
1. Marking the Eyes in The Female Quixote 30
2. Performing Print in Polly Honeycombe: A Dramatick Novel 70
3. Penetrating Readers in Tristram Shandy 116
4. Enthusiasm, Methodism and Metaphors in The Spiritual Quixote 156
5. Citational Quixotism in Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 206
Conclusions: Quixotic Impressions in the Nineteenth Century 254
Bibliography 263
Index 298
About the Author 299