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- Title: Scott Paul Gordon. The Practice of Quixotism: Postmodern Theory and Eighteenth Century Women's Writing
- Author : Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Scott Paul Gordon. The Practice of Quixotism: Postmodern Theory and Eighteenth Century Women's Writing. New York: Palgrave, 2006. 240pp. ISBN: 978-1-4039-7444-0. In The Practice of Quixotism, Scott Paul Gordon describes some key traits of the Cervantine hero in the protagonists of texts by eighteenth-century women. Some of these texts (chief among them Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote) have been the ground for much scholarship on picaresque characterization in the literature of the Enlightenment; others, like Sophia Lee's The Recess, are less commonly catalogued as quixotic narratives. Gordon supports his mode of analysis through ah interesting interpretation of the conflict between fantasy and reality in the interiority of the quixotic character. In Gordon's assessment, the way authors position such characters in the texts points to a rather vexing relationship between subjectivity and perception. Since he chooses women's writing as his subject and draws on criticism of that writing from feminist recovery projects, his assertion that Enlightenment thinking views female subjectivity and perception as already picaresque supplements his examination of that relationship. In addition, Gordon argues that this relationship's complexities also energize much postmodern theory.
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