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Female Quixotism - Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon (Paperback, New ed)
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Female Quixotism - Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Early American Women Writers
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The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of
fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted
in its entirety, each introduced by Cathy N. Davidson, who places
the novel in an historical and literary perspective. Ranging from
serious cautionary tales about moral corruption to amusing and
trenchant social satire, these books provide today's reader with a
unique window into the earliest American popular fiction and way of
life.
First published in 1801, Female Quixotism is a boisterous,
rollicking anti-romance and literary satire. It takes place in the
fictional village of L---, Pennsylvania, where its central
character Dorcas Sheldon--who styles herself the romantic
"Dorcasina"--sets out on a quixotic quest for the kind of romantic
love portrayed in her favorite English novels. Having rejected the
prosaic yet honorable advances of her first suitor, "Lysander,"
Dorcasina narrowly escapes marriage to a series of unscrupulous
rogues interested mostly in her considerable fortune. Moving from
one misadventure to another, the heroine's journey ends in a lonely
old age bereft of romantic illusion.
Female Quixotism was written during a period of self-definition
for the fledgling American republic, and offers a telling glimpse
of gender, race, and class issues--as volatile then as they are
today. Its woman's-eye view of the life and literature of the age
provides a tragicomic parody of the limited choices available to
women in a society dedicated to the principle that all men are
created equal.
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