"High and noble adventures": reading the novel in 'The Female Quixote.'
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The significance of romance in women's narrative was examined in Charlotte Lenox's 'The Female Quixote' in light of the new fiction genre popularized by Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding in the 19th century. Lennox used romance in the novel to emphasize the link between romance and female readers and to strengthen the association between the old romance and the new novel. In using these techniques, Lennox strengthened her position in the novel genre previously closed to women in the 19th century.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 1997
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Quixotic ethnography: Charlotte Lennox and the dilemma of cultural observation
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The primary interest of Charlotte Lennox in 'The Female Quixote' (1752) is not in the outcome of the battle between the romance and the real world of the novel, but in how literature takes part in England's definition of itself as a modern society. It is suggested that 'The Female Quixote' poses the ongoing cultural question as to how the relationship between one's own point of view and a different one can be understood or even acknowledged.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2005
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The theater of politeness in Charlotte Lennox's British-American novels
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Issues related to the novels of 18th-century author Charlotte Lennox are examined, focusing on what the novels reveal about the personalities of those involved in British colonialism and American independence. Topics include the state of women's novels in the 18th century, the political aspects of gentility and politeness, colonial racism, and the experience of declining British aristocrats in America.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 1999
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