The Printed Reader Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Amelia Dale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dale, Amelia, author.

Series:

Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850.

Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quixote, Don (Fictitious character).

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Influence.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

English literature.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.

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

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.) : 14 B-W illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68448-106-6

OCLC:

1138501895