The Practice of Quixotism : Postmodern Theory and Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing

S. Gordon

ISBN 10: 1349535060 / ISBN 13: 9781349535064

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan Us, 2006

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 inevitably mediated by the texts we have read.

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• Titre: The Practice of Quixotism : Postmodern Theory and Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan Us
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1349535060
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781349535064
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 140 H x 14 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 140 millimètres de hauteur par 14 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 322 grammes

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Synopsis

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 inevitably mediated by the texts we have read.

À propos de l?auteur

SCOTT PAUL GORDON is an Associate Professor of English, and Co-Director of the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies, at Lehigh University. He has published The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770 (2002), as well as numerous articles on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British culture.