...Zak Watson This article proposes a new account of the interplay of genre and desire in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote . It claims that Arabella's education, her transition from the rules of romance to those of the novel, consists of her being drawn into the circuit of desire that defines her...

... Petro's puppet show in Don Quixote demonstrate the inseparability of romance and realism; realism too depends on the pleasures of enchantment, a transformation of the real that depends on the same effects the novel critiques in its moments of demystification. If the Quixote is modern, it is not because...

... , Catherine A. “Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn’s Fair Vow-Breaker, Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina, and Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote.” Modern Language Review 86 ( 1991 ): 821 –38. Davis , Leith . Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707–1830...

..., embodies a type that the most influential current of novel theory has made difficult to credit, perhaps even to recognize: the reverse quixote , a character who ostentatiously resists conflating literature and life or viewing the world and experience through the lens of literature—but who would benefit...

... to Plato and Don Quixote helps scrutinize their philosophy and reach the thesis of this essay: that with these books, Coetzee experiments with a form that goes beyond the novel. Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 allegory novel form parenthood childhood idea substance...

... committedly incomplete account of global interrelations takes shape via an engagement with a text authored just in the wake of the modern world-system's sixteenth-century constitution, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote ( 1605 /1615). The influence of Cervantes's novel on Moby-Dick has received meagre...

.... Campbell , Jill . Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding’s Plays and Novels . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995 . Cascardi , Anthony J. “Don Quixote and the Invention of the Novel.” The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes . Ed. Anthony Cascardi. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002 . 58 –79...

.... This is not a doctrine of skepticism, but an expression of limitations. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Braudy , Leo . Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970 . Cervantes , Saavedra Miguel de . Don Quixote de la Mancha . Ed. de...

... on a disconnection from the world (190). Stability depends upon a quixotic filter or block. History in Scott, then, is precisely the interference with this screen: in history, you “lose the ability to tell whether you're moving or the world is moving” (191). The upshot is a sudden surge of social material...

... to alter the understand- ing of human nature in ways . . . writers have not” (Carey A1). So how could one possibly understand the founding of the Society for Novel Studies at such a juncture? Is this an eminently quixotic endeavor? Given the foun- dational place of Don Quixote in the trajectory...

... and its subjects. Four primary texts—the anonymous Chinese novel The Plum in the Golden Vase ( Jin Ping Mei ) (ca. 1580–1600), Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605, 1615), Ihara Saikaku's Life of an Amorous Man ( Kōshoku ichidai otoko ) (1682), and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719–20...

... of the father in Effi Briest : “Es ist ein weites Feld,” and the novel's Quixotic hero, “Fonty,” is (as part of a complex literary joke) a reincarnation of Fontane himself. This debt notwithstanding, Grass's literary field extends beyond Germany to the history of the novel as a European and (implicitly...

... a library, after all—but the only fiction any of the characters read is a child's illustrated Don Quixote , a telling artifact from a forgotten literary history. Other atavisms arise from time to time, such as the German text of Goethe's “Erlkönig,” which Simón mistakenly identifies as English. Regardless...

... of either an exemplary individual or an artist. Indeed, Attridge argues, there is more than enough reason not to read the novels as David's story at all. As the Quixote figure, David is consistently a figure of his own imagination who happens to be flesh and blood; and it takes a village to care...

... to think about the mundane fantasies with which readers invest their activity. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Prosaic novelistic knowledge imaginary “And what is the title of the book?” asked Don Quixote. “ The Life of Gines de Pasamonte ,” replied that hero...

... message” ( Metaphysical Exile , 122 ). 18 On Don Quixote as a “non-religious Bible” in Childhood , see Rabaté . 17 In his Epistle to the Romans, Paul writes that Christ rose in order that “we too may live a new life” (Rom. 6:4) (New International Version of the New Testament...

... thinking of Jorge Luis Borges, and in particular his 1939 story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ,” which describes the achievement of a writer who sets out not to copy Don Quixote but “to produce a few pages which would coincide—word for word and line for line—with those of Miguel de Cervantes...

... . The Rambler 4 ( March 31, 1750). The Major Works . Ed. Donald Greene. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000 . 175 –79. Lennox , Charlotte . The Female Quixote, or the Adventures of Arabella . Ed. Margaret Dalziel. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989 . Locke , John . An Essay Concerning Human Understanding...

... and conformity, reason, and habit, and was both "self-reliant, yet culturally conformed" (39). Barney offers supple readings of eighteenth-century novels of education, from Robinson Crusoe to The Female Quixote, informed by and modeling these complex and con- tradictory pedagogical relations...

... of a bastardized children's edition of Don Quixote , a version of the very text that we often place at the beginning of our narratives of secularization and disenchantment. If Don Quixote was meant to cure its audience of the illusions of medieval romance, thus helping to bring about the disenchanted world...