Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones Summary
Erica Jong

Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones Summary

Fanny is a novel of ideas as well as an exuberant recreation of eighteenthcentury picaresque style. Like the young protagonists of fiction written during the Age of Reason, Fanny searches for the meaning of life. She speculates irreverently on philosophical systems which consider only the behavior of men towards one another and notices the gap between the Alexander Pope's elevated sentiments and his personal lechery. The book's feminist themes are expressed by shifting...

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