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The Printed Reader : Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain /

"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 brin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dale, Amelia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.