The Female Quixote
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- Nombre de pages465
- FormatGrand Format
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.362 kg
- Dimensions13,0 cm × 19,8 cm × 2,5 cm
- ISBN978-0-14-043987-8
- EAN9780140439878
- Date de parution01/07/2007
- CollectionPenguin Classics
- ÉditeurPenguin Books
- AnnotateurAmanda Gilroy
- AnnotateurWil Verhoeven
Résumé
Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many scrapes and mortifications ensue — all men seem like predators wishing to ravish her, she mistakes a cross-dressing prostitute for a distressed gentlewoman, and she risks her life by throwing herself into the Thames to avoid a potential seducer.
Can Arabella be cured of her romantic delusions ? An immediate success when it first appeared in 1752, The Female Quixote is a wonderfully high-spirited parody in the style of Cervantes, and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society. In her introduction, Amanda Gilroy discusses Charlotte Lennox's life and literary career, the eighteenth-century vogue for romances,, the character of Arabella and the novel's treatment of women's fashion and roles.
This edition also includes a chronology, a bibliography and notes.
Can Arabella be cured of her romantic delusions ? An immediate success when it first appeared in 1752, The Female Quixote is a wonderfully high-spirited parody in the style of Cervantes, and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society. In her introduction, Amanda Gilroy discusses Charlotte Lennox's life and literary career, the eighteenth-century vogue for romances,, the character of Arabella and the novel's treatment of women's fashion and roles.
This edition also includes a chronology, a bibliography and notes.
