Embattled reason, principled sentiment and political radicalism : quixotism in English novels, 1742-1801 / Dragos Ivana ; cover design, Aart Jan Bergshoeff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ivana, Dragoş, author.

Contributor:

Bergshoeff, Aart Jan, cover designer.

Series:

Costerus ; new ser., v. 209.

Costerus New Series ; 209

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York : Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism: Quixotism in English Novels, 1742-1801 proposes a new understanding of eighteenth-century Quixotism in English thought and literary production. The honourable and reform-oriented envisaging of the world displayed by eighteenth-century English Quixotes reveals a strain of lament and criticism aimed at the rise of commercialism and the pre-eminence of self-interest, patriarchy, political economy, religious conformism and imperial designs. Chapters on Henry Fielding, Sarah Fielding, Henry Mackenzie, Charlotte Lennox, Richard Graves and Charles Lucas exemplify the period’s marketplace diversity while convincingly claiming intellectual common ground. Quixotism appears as a discourse serving ethic-political ends, in which its very formulation as a genteel, though eccentric, assembly of principled sentiments enables social intervention and a political critique upheld by comedy and Whiggish sympathetic laughter.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

INTRODUCTION / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

HENRY FIELDING AND THE RHETORIC OF QUIXOTIC BENEVOLENCE: DON QUIXOTE IN ENGLAND / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF A NEW GENRE BASED ON A PRODUCTIVE TAUTOLOGY: HENRY FIELDING’S COMIC ROMANCE AND QUIXOTISM / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

FROM DON QUIXOTE’S LANCE TO PARSON ADAMS’ QUIXOTIC BENEVOLENCE / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

QUIXOTISM, MORAL SENTIMENT AND MANDEVILLIAN ECONOMICS IN SARAH FIELDING’S THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID SIMPLE AND VOLUME THE LAST / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

THE BAD EFFECTS OF SENTIMENTAL QUIXOTISM: UNPRINCIPLED SENTIMENT AS VIRTUE IN HENRY MACKENZIE’S THE MAN OF FEELING / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

FEMINIZING QUIXOTISM: THE POLITICS OF GENRE AND GENDER IN CHARLOTTE LENNOX’S THE FEMALE QUIXOTE / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

A TALE OF FAITH AND LOVE: RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM AND NATURAL AFFECTION IN RICHARD GRAVES’ THE SPIRITUAL QUIXOTE / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

CODA: CHARLES LUCAS’ THE INFERNAL QUIXOTE, RADICALISM AND THE COMIC SENSE OF MORAL REFORM / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

BIBLIOGRAPHY / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism

INDEX / Editors Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 12, 2015).

ISBN:

94-012-1022-5

OCLC:

905918680

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401210225 DOI