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]
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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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Table of Contents:
  • 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