The Female Quixote or The Adventures of Arabella (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Lennox, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199540241 ISBN 13: 9780199540242

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

Synopsis

The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her into all manner of misunderstandings.

Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent introduction and full explanatory notes, this edition will be of particular interest to students of women's literature, and of the eighteenth-century novel.
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About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Lennox (1720 - 1804), American-born English novelist whose work was much admired by leading literary figures of her time, including Samuel Johnson and the novelists Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. Lennox's first novel was The Life of Harriot Stuart (1751). The Female Quixote (1752) and Henrietta (1758) followed.

Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven both teach at the University of Groningen, having previously taught at Brown University in the US. Together they have edited Gilbert Imlay's The Emigrants for Penguin Classics and they have also published widely in the area of historical travel writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199540241
• ISBN 13: 9780199540242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Dalziel Margaret