num_pages: 372
description: Psychohistorian Simms, an American and Israeli citizen who lives in New Zealand, looks closely at Female Quixote , the 1752 the English narrative by Lennox, bypassing rather than challenging the current feminist, post-colonialist, and post-modernist perspectives. It deals with a humane and sympathetic understanding of mental illness and its treatment, he argues, and the sensitivity and capacity to imagine a more efficacious therapy derives from the author's personality and cultural background, which place her outside the normal currents of English literary history. He focuses on the final chapters of Book IX, where the title character Arabella debates an unnamed doctor on the nature of fiction and history and ways of validating the truth within fiction. The text is double spaced. There is no index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Crypto-Judaism, Madness and the Female Quixote: Charlotte Lennox As Marrana in Mid-Eighteenth...
titlecomplete: Crypto-Judaism, Madness and the Female Quixote: Charlotte Lennox As Marrana in Mid-Eighteenth... (Studies in British Literature)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr