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020 a| 9781644534120;

020 a| 1644534134q| (cloth);

020 a| 9781644534137q| (cloth);

020 a| 1644534126q| (paper);

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100 1 a| Wyett, Jodi L.,e| author.?| UNAUTHORIZED;

245 10 a| Quixotic authority :b| the female Quixote and the woman writer, Lennox to Austen /c| Jodi L. Wyett.;

264 1 a| Newark :b| University of Delaware Press,c| [2026];

300 a| x, 252 pages :b| color illustrations ;c| 23 cm.;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

338 a| volumeb| nc2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Early modern feminisms;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: Reading, writing, and tilting at windmills: The woman writer and the female Quixote -- The model Quixote: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote -- The defiant Quixote: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, manuscript romance, and the market for mid-century fiction -- The instructive Quixote: Maria Edgeworth, affective reading, and the limits of didactic writing -- The anonymous Quixote? Sarah Green, the popular novel(ist), and posterity -- The engaged Quixote: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey -- Epilogue: Screening female quixotism: Janeite fangirls and the persistence of white, heteropatriarchal power.;

520 a| "Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional writing and cultural commentary from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. The trope of quixotism, what we might today call "fangirling," had distinctly gendered implications, as the female quixote was almost exclusively associated with uncritical, overly absorptive novel reading, and often portrayed as a self-centered, deluded, ill-educated home-wrecker who must be reformed or punished. But what do we make of the fact that women wrote most of the depictions of female quixotes in novels of this period? Jodi Wyett shows that authors such as Charlotte Lennox and Jane Austen wrote quixote narratives to assert their own professional cachet as well as validate the passion and intelligence of women novel readers. Harnessing the power of the genre, they debunked proscriptive contemporary discourse denigrating both women and the novel. This book redefines the female quixote as a fierce fangirl both modeled in fiction and embodied by her creators." --Amazon.;

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650 0 a| English literaturey| 18th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A15513;

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Quixotic authority : the female Quixote and the woman writer, Lennox to Austen / Jodi L. Wyett.

Author/creator	Wyett, Jodi L. author.
Format	Book
Publication	Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2026]
Copyright Date	©2026
Description	x, 252 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects	English literature--Women authors. --History and criticism. English literature--18th century. --History and criticism.

Series	Early modern feminisms Early modern feminisms. ^A1379738
Contents	Introduction: Reading, writing, and tilting at windmills: The woman writer and the female Quixote -- The model Quixote: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote -- The defiant Quixote: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, manuscript romance, and the market for mid-century fiction -- The instructive Quixote: Maria Edgeworth, affective reading, and the limits of didactic writing -- The anonymous Quixote? Sarah Green, the popular novel(ist), and posterity -- The engaged Quixote: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey -- Epilogue: Screening female quixotism: Janeite fangirls and the persistence of white, heteropatriarchal power.
Abstract	"Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional writing and cultural commentary from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. The trope of quixotism, what we might today call "fangirling," had distinctly gendered implications, as the female quixote was almost exclusively associated with uncritical, overly absorptive novel reading, and often portrayed as a self-centered, deluded, ill-educated home-wrecker who must be reformed or punished. But what do we make of the fact that women wrote most of the depictions of female quixotes in novels of this period? Jodi Wyett shows that authors such as Charlotte Lennox and Jane Austen wrote quixote narratives to assert their own professional cachet as well as validate the passion and intelligence of women novel readers. Harnessing the power of the genre, they debunked proscriptive contemporary discourse denigrating both women and the novel. This book redefines the female quixote as a fierce fangirl both modeled in fiction and embodied by her creators." --Amazon.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9781644534120
ISBN	1644534134 (cloth)
ISBN	9781644534137 (cloth)
ISBN	1644534126 (paper)
ISBN	(epub)

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