The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella

by Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Dalziel, Margaret Anne Doody

Overview

The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a marquis, whose passion for reading romances colors her approach to her own life and causes many comical and melodramatic misunderstandings among her relatives and admirers. Both Joseph Fielding and Samuel Johnson greatly admired Lennox, and this novel established her as one of the most successful practitioners of the "Novel of Sentiment."

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199540242
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/15/2008
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	470,059
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Charlotte Lennox (c.1727-1804), an American-born English novelist, was also the author of The Life of Harriot Stuart and Henrietta.
Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven teach at the University of Groningen.