The Female Quixote

The Female Quixote
Author: Charlotte Lennox
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1775415139

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote. While the latter mistook himself for the hero of a Romance, Arabella believes she is the fair maiden. She believes she can fell a hero with one look and that any number of lovers would be happy to suffer on her behalf.

Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson
Author: Valerie Grosvenor Myer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780389206507

The novelists of the eighteenth century are enjoying a popular, as well as a learned, revival. Chief among them is Richardson. Here an international team of brilliant scholars and critics comes together to reconsider Richardson's achievement and to assess recent approaches.

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, The History of the Count de Comminge, translated by Charlotte Lennox

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, The History of the Count de Comminge, translated by Charlotte Lennox
Author: Marianna D’Ezio
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2011-05-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1443830240

In 1756 Charlotte Lennox, already a celebrated novelist—she had just published her most renowned work, The Female Quixote, a year before—translated from the original French one of the most successful novels written by Madame Claudine Gérin, the marquise de Tencin, Mémoires du comte de Comminge (1735). At the time, Madame de Tencin was a controversial public figure, an intellectual woman and one of the most distinguished salonnières in eighteenth-century France. Although Tencin’s name as the authoress of the novel was kept secret until after her death, notwithstanding the outstanding success of her Mémoires, Charlotte Lennox knew that the novel had been penned by a woman and decided to translate it and later serialize it in her feminist magazine The Lady’s Museum, a periodical wholly devoted to women’s literary and cultural education. Lennox’s translation of Tencin’s short novel is here reprinted for the first time after two centuries with critical notes and an introduction, in an edition that takes into account a close comparison between Lennox’s translation and Madame de Tencin’s original French version, and analyses all the variations and addenda that appeared in Lennox’s own version of The History of the Count de Comminge.

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1901
Genre:
ISBN: