The Printed Reader : : Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain / / Amelia Dale.
The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and embody their readings. Through intersecting read...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 14 B-W illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Impressions and the Quixotic Reader -- 1. Marking the Eyes in The Female Quixote -- 2. Performing Print in Polly Honeycombe, a Dramatick Novel of One Act -- 3. Penetrating Readers in Tristram Shandy -- 4. Enthusiasm, Methodists, and Metaphors in The Spiritual Quixote -- 5. Citational Quixotism in Memoirs of Modern Philosophers -- Conclusion: Quixotic Impressions in the Nineteenth Century -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and embody their readings. Through intersecting readings of quixotic narratives, including work by Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, George Colman, Richard Graves, and Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Dale argues that literature was envisaged as imprinting-most crucially, in gendered terms-the reader's mind, character, and body. The Printed Reader brings together key debates concerning quixotic narratives, print culture, sensibility, empiricism, book history, and the material text, connecting developments in print technology to gendered conceptualizations of quixotism. Tracing the meanings of quixotic readers' bodies, The Printed Reader claims the social and political text that is the quixotic reader is structured by the experiential, affective, and sexual resonances of imprinting and impressions. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781684481064 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610369 9783110606348 9783110653526 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9781684481064?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Amelia Dale. |