Charlotte Lennox’s Path to The Female Quixote: A Journey Along and Across Borders
Creators: name: Guidotti, Francesca
Publisher: name: Jan Kochanowski University Press
Year: 2023

description: Contents 5 Marina Bianchi Artistic/Literary Spaces and Borders: A Brief Introduction to the Monographic Issue n. 4 Articles 11 Francesca Guidotti Charlotte Lennox’s Path to The Female Quixote: A Journey Along and Across Borders 35 José María Balcells Doménech Amor de Láser de Rafael Ballesteros: una poética de transgresión vanguardista 53 Francisco Javier Escobar Borrego “Palabras del agua” y “versos en piedra”: huellas de Guillén y Aleixandre en el imaginario poético-musical de Atencia (con paseos literarios, ecos de Caracola y coda cernudiana) 83 Fernanda Pavié Santana Espacio, memoria y resiliencia en Ruido de Álvaro Bisama (2012) 107 Domenico Coppola Dritte Räume und Widerspenstigkeit der Natur: eine Studie zu den Wechselwirkungen zwischen Mensch und Raum in Robert Seethalers Roman Ein ganzes Leben 131 Lia Pacini Between Fancy and Reality: The Crossing of Borders in Poe’s “Ligeia” 151 Marta Colleoni Debussy, l’étoffe d’un vrai poète ? La synthèse poétique-musicale des Proses lyriques 173 Andrea Cornaggia Monstres d’inépuisable beauté. L’effondrement des limites du corps grotesque chez Alfred Jarry
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description: This paper explores the literary odyssey of Charlotte Lennox through the English cultural scene of the eighteenth century, marked by the rise of the novel and by a resurgence of Quixotism. Drawing upon biographical reconstruction, historical context, and textual analysis, it interprets Lennox’s multifaceted figure as that of a “frontier writer”, set on negotiating societal and literary boundaries by developing a transformative approach to gender and genre dynamics. After discussing the writer’s ability to forge alliances and turn perceived weaknesses into strengths, the essay traces her trajectory, from early ventures into poetry to her subsequent engagement in prose fiction. It eventually focuses on her second and most renowned novel, The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752), which can be read as a confirmation of the barriers of dominant ideology but also as a thought-provoking critique and a longed-for overcoming of those very barriers. Lennox’s work then sheds light on the ideological complexities of the eighteenth-century English novel, meant as a site of both border-raising and border-crossing.This paper explores the literary odyssey of Charlotte Lennox through the English cultural scene of the eighteenth century, marked by the rise of the novel and by a resurgence of Quixotism. Drawing upon biographical reconstruction, historical context, and textual analysis, it interprets Lennox’s multifaceted figure as that of a “frontier writer”, set on negotiating societal and literary boundaries by developing a transformative approach to gender and genre dynamics. After discussing the writer’s ability to forge alliances and turn perceived weaknesses into strengths, the essay traces her trajectory, from early ventures into poetry to her subsequent engagement in prose fiction. It eventually focuses on her second and most renowned novel, The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752), which can be read as a confirmation of the barriers of dominant ideology but also as a thought-provoking critique and a longed-for overcoming of those very barriers. Lennox’s work then sheds light on the ideological complexities of the eighteenth-century English novel, meant as a site of both border-raising and border-crossing.