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Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon
The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each...
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The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each introduced by Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in an historical and literary perspective. Ranging from serious cautionary tales about
moral corruption to amusing and trenchant social satire, these books provide today's reader with a unique window into the earliest American popular fiction and way of life.
First published in 1801, Female Quixotism is a boisterous, rollicking anti-romance and literary satire. It takes place in the fictional village of L---, Pennsylvania, where its central character Dorcas Sheldon--who styles herself the romantic Dorcasina--sets out on a quixotic quest for the
kind of romantic love portrayed in her favorite English novels. Having rejected the prosaic yet honorable advances of her first suitor, Lysander, Dorcasina narrowly escapes marriage to a series of unscrupulous rogues interested mostly in her considerable fortune. Moving from one misadventure to
another, the heroine's journey ends in a lonely old age bereft of romantic illusion.
Female Quixotism was written during a period of self-definition for the fledgling American republic, and offers a telling glimpse of gender, race, and class issues--as volatile then as they are today. Its woman's-eye view of the life and literature of the age provides a tragicomic parody of
the limited choices available to women in a society dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal.
Author: Tabitha Gilman Tenney
ISBN-10: 0195074149
ISBN-13: 9780195074147
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/05/1992
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.90d
moral corruption to amusing and trenchant social satire, these books provide today's reader with a unique window into the earliest American popular fiction and way of life.
First published in 1801, Female Quixotism is a boisterous, rollicking anti-romance and literary satire. It takes place in the fictional village of L---, Pennsylvania, where its central character Dorcas Sheldon--who styles herself the romantic Dorcasina--sets out on a quixotic quest for the
kind of romantic love portrayed in her favorite English novels. Having rejected the prosaic yet honorable advances of her first suitor, Lysander, Dorcasina narrowly escapes marriage to a series of unscrupulous rogues interested mostly in her considerable fortune. Moving from one misadventure to
another, the heroine's journey ends in a lonely old age bereft of romantic illusion.
Female Quixotism was written during a period of self-definition for the fledgling American republic, and offers a telling glimpse of gender, race, and class issues--as volatile then as they are today. Its woman's-eye view of the life and literature of the age provides a tragicomic parody of
the limited choices available to women in a society dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal.
Author: Tabitha Gilman Tenney
ISBN-10: 0195074149
ISBN-13: 9780195074147
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/05/1992
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.90d
About the Author
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.
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