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Embattled reason, principled sentiment and political radicalism : quixotism in English novels, 1742-1801 /
The book proposes a new understanding of eighteenth-century Quixotism in English thought and literary production. 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, religious co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York :
Rodopi,
2014.
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| Colección: | Costerus.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism: Quixotism in English Novels, 1742-1801; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Henry Fielding and the Rhetoric of Quixotic Benevolence: Don Quixote in England; Chapter 2 The Institutionalization of a New Genre Based on a Productive Tautology: Henry Fielding's Comic Romance and Quixotism; Chapter 3 From Don Quixote's Lance to Parson Adams' Quixotic Benevolence; Chapter 4 Quixotism, Moral Sentiment and Mandevillian Economics in Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last.
- Chapter 5 The Bad Effects of Sentimental Quixotism: Unprincipled Sentiment as Virtue in Henry Mackenzie's The Man of FeelingChapter 6 Feminizing Quixotism: The Politics of Genre and Gender in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote; Chapter 7 A Tale of Faith and Love: Religious Enthusiasm and Natural Affection in Richard Graves' The Spiritual Quixote; Coda: Charles Lucas' The Infernal Quixote, Radicalism and the Comic Sense of Moral Reform; Bibliography; Index.