The Practice of Quixotism Postmodern Theory and Eighteenth-Century W
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
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Postmodern Theory and Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing
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Scott Paul Gordon
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The Practice of Quixotism
THE PRACTICE OF QUIXOTISM
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction The Quixote Trope
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Chapter 1 Historicizing Quixote and the Scandal of Quixotism
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Chapter 2 Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote and Orthodox Quixotism
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Chapter 3 Suspicion and Experience in Sarah Fielding’s David Simple
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Chapter 4 Mary Wortley Montagu and the Quixotic Dream of Objectivity
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Chapter 5 Quixotic Perception in Sophia Lee’s The Recess
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Chapter 6 Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho and the Practice
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