Title The printed reader : gender, quixotism, and textual bodies in eighteenth-century Britain / Amelia Dale

Published Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 216 pages) : illustrations Series Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850 Transits (Bucknell University) Contents Introduction : impressions and the quixotic reader -- Marking the eyes in The female Quixote -- Performing print in Polly Honeycombe : a dramatick novel of one act -- Penetrating readers in Tristram Shandy -- Enthusiasm, Methodists and metaphors in The Spiritual Quixote -- Citational quixotism in Memoirs of modern philosophers -- Conclusions : quixotic impressions in the nineteenth century 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. The collection 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206) and index Notes Electronic version record Subject Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Influence Quixote, Don (Fictitious character) SUBJECT Quixote, Don (Fictitious character) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Influence Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 fast Quixote, Don (Fictitious character) fast Englisch ... gnd Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616 Don Quijote gnd (FrPBN)11937284 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quijote de la Mancha (FrPBN)11975790 -- Influence. ram Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Books and reading English literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Rezeption Literatur Geistesleben Livres et lecture -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siecle. Litterature anglaise -- 18e siecle. Great Britain Großbritannien Leesen Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Bucknell University Press. ISBN 1684481066 9781684481064

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