Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon - Couverture souple

Tenney, Tabitha Gilman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195074149 ISBN 13 : 9780195074147

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Tenney Tabitha Gilman

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 a tragi-comic parody of the limited choices available to women in a society founded on the principle that all men are created equal, that Tenney's Female Quixotism really stands apart from similar contemporary works.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0195074149
• ISBN 13: 9780195074147
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372