Female Quixotism
Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon
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1992
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-507414-7 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-507414-7 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Jean Nienkamp is a doctoral candidate in English at The Pennsylvania State University. Andrea Collins, a poet, works with Associated Writing Programs in Norfolk, Virginia and is an adjunct faculty member at Old Dominion University. Cathy N. Davidson, Professor of English at Duke University and editor of American Literature, has published most recently Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America and Reading in America: Literature and Social History.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.6.1992 |
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Reihe/Serie | Early American Women Writers |
Vorwort | Cathy N. Davidson |
Zusatzinfo | 1 halftone |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 134 x 203 mm |
Gewicht | 312 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Schlagworte | Early American Women Writers S. |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-507414-9 / 0195074149 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-507414-7 / 9780195074147 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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