Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen
Author:   Jodi L. Wyett
Publisher:   University of Delaware Press
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   13 January 2026
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Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen


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Author:   Jodi L. Wyett
Publisher:   University of Delaware Press
Imprint:   University of Delaware Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781644534120


ISBN 10:   1644534126
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   13 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Reading, Writing, and Tilting at Windmills: The Woman Writer and the Female Quixote 1. The Model Quixote: Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote 2. The Defiant Quixote: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Manuscript Romance, and the Market for Mid-Century Fiction 3. The Instructive Quixote: Maria Edgeworth, Affective Reading, and the Limits of Didactic Writing 4. The Anonymous Quixote?: Sarah Green, the Popular Novel(ist), and Posterity 5. The Engaged Quixote: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey Epilogue. Screening Female Quixotism: Janeite Fangirls and the Persistence of White, Heteropatriarchal Power Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Jodi L. Wyett is Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has published numerous book chapters, as well as articles in such journals as Aphra Behn Online, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction, on subjects such as Jane Austen, Frances Brooke, and female quixotism.

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