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SOURCE: Gardiner, Ellen. “Writing Men Reading in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote.”1 Studies in the Novel 28, no. 1 (spring 1996): 1-11.
In the following essay, Gardiner argues that The Female Quixote should be read as literary criticism.
The Female Quixote (1752) has remained a fairly marginal text in twentieth-century histories of the novel because any number of critics have explicated it as primarily revealing Charlotte Lennox's and women's vexed relationship to the romance.2 These readings neglect, however, Lennox's more complex argument about the way in which the term romance functions in her novel. In The Female Quixote, Lennox points to eighteenth-century literary culture's use of romance as a tool with which to exclude readers and writers from participation in the new profession of literary reviewership on the basis of class and gender.3 In this essay, I will read The Female Quixote not as romance, but as a form of literary criticism...
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