The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2
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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 chap...
Chapters (110)
- THE FEMALE QUIXOTE;
- OR,
- THE ADVENTURES OF ARABELLA.
- CHARLOTTE LENNOX
- In Two Volumes. The Second Edition: Revised and Corrected.
- PREFACE
- THE FEMALE QUIXOTE.
- VOLUME I.
- BOOK I.
- Chapter I. Contains a turn at court, neither new nor surprising. Some useless additions to a fine lady's education. The bad effects of a whimsical study, which some will say is borrowed from Cervantes.
- Chapter II. Contains a description of a lady's dress, in fashion not much above two thousand years ago. The beginning of an adventure which seems to promise a great deal.
- Chapter III. In which the adventure goes on after the accustomed manner.
- Chapter IV. A mistake, which produces no great consequences. An extraordinary comment upon a behaviour natural enough. An instance of a lady's compassion for her lover, which the reader may possibly think not very compassionate.
- Chapter V. In which one would imagine the adventure concluded, but for a promise that something else is to come.
- Chapter VI. In which the adventure is really concluded; though, possibly, not as the reader expected.
- Chapter VII. In which some contradictions are very happily reconciled.
- Chapter VIII. In which a mistake, in point of ceremony, is rectified.
- Chapter IX. In which a lover is severely punished for faults which the reader never would have discovered, if he had not been told.
- Chapter X. Contains several incidents, in which the reader is expected to be extremely interested.
- Chapter XI. In which a logical argument is unseasonably interrupted.
- Chapter XII. In which the reader will find a specimen of the true pathetic, in a speech of Oroondates. The adventure of the books.
- Chapter XIII. The adventure of the books continued.
- BOOK II.
- Chapter I. In which the adventure of the books is happily concluded.
- Chapter II. Which contains a very natural incident.
- Chapter III. Which treats of a consolatory visit, and other grave matters.
- Chapter IV. Which contains some common occurrences, but placed in a new light.
- Chapter V. The history of Miss Groves, interspersed with some very curious observations.
- Chapter VI. Containing what a judicious reader will hardly approve.
- Chapter VII. Which treats of the Olympic Games.
- Chapter VIII. Which concludes with an excellent moral sentence.
- Chapter IX. Containing some curious anecdotes.
- Chapter X. In which our heroine is engaged in a very perilous adventure.
- Chapter XI. In which the lady is wonderfully delivered.
- BOOK III.
- Chapter I. Two conversations, out of which the reader may pick up a great deal.
- Chapter II. A solemn interview.
- Chapter III. In which the interview is ended, not much to the lover's satisfaction, but exactly conformable to the rules of romance.
- Chapter IV. In which our heroine is greatly disappointed.
- Chapter V. Some curious instructions for relating an history.
- Chapter VI. A very heroic chapter.
- Chapter VII. In which our heroine is suspected of insensibility.
- Chapter VIII. In which we hope the reader will be differently affected.
- BOOK IV.
- Chapter I. In which our heroine discovers her knowledge in astronomy.
- Chapter II. In which a very pleasing conversation is left unfinished.
- Chapter III. Definition of love and beauty. The necessary qualities of a hero and heroine.
- Chapter IV. In which our heroine is engaged in a new adventure.
- Chapter V. Being a chapter of mistakes.
- Chapter VI. In which the mistakes are continued.
- Chapter VII. In which the mistakes are not yet cleared up.
- Chapter VIII. Which contains some necessary consequences of the foregoing mistakes. A soliloquy on a love-letter.
- Chapter IX. Containing a love-letter in the heroic style; with some occasional reasonings by Lucy, full of wit and simplicity.
- VOLUME II.
- BOOK V.
- Chapter I. A dispute very learnedly handled by two ladies, in which the reader may take what part he pleases.
- Chapter II.
- Chapter III. In which our heroine is in some little confusion.
- Chapter V. In which will be found one of the former mistakes pursued, and another cleared up, to the great satisfaction of two persons; among whom the reader, we expect, will make a third.
- Chapter VI. Containing some account of Thalestris, queen of the Amazons, with other curious anecdotes.
- BOOK VI.
- Chapter I. Containing the beginning of Sir George's history; in which the ingenious relator has exactly copied the style of romance.
- Chapter II. In which Sir George, continuing his surprising history, relates a most stupendous instance of a valour only to be paralleled by that of the great Oroondates, Cæsareo, &c. &c. &c.
- Chapter III. A love adventure, after the romantic taste.
- Chapter IV. The adventure continued.
- Chapter V. An extraordinary instance of generosity in a lover, somewhat resembling that of the great Artaxerxes in Cassandra.
- Chapter VI. In which it will be seen, that the lady is as generous as her lover.
- Chapter VII. Containing an incident full as probable as any in Scudery's Romances.
- Chapter VIII. A single combat fought with prodigious valour, and described with amazing accuracy.
- Chapter IX. In which the reader will find a description of a beauty, in a style truly sublime.
- Chapter X. Wherein Sir George concludes his history; which produces an unexpected effect.
- Chapter XI. Containing only a few inferences, drawn from the foregoing chapters.
- BOOK VII.
- Chapter I. For the shortness of which the length of the next shall make some amends.
- Chapter II. Not so long as was first intended; but contains, however, a surprising adventure on the road
- Chapter III. Which concludes with an authentic piece of history.
- Chapter IV. In which one of our heroine's whims is justified, by some others full as whimsical.
- Chapter V. Containing some historical anecdotes, the truth of which may possibly be doubted, as they are not to be found in any of the historians.
- Chapter VI. Which contains some excellent rules for raillery.
- Chapter VII. In which the author condescends to be very minute in the description of our heroine's dress.
- Chapter VIII. Some reflections very fit, and others very unfit, for an assembly-room.
- Chapter IX. Being a chapter of the satirical kind.
- Chapter X. In which our heroine justifies her own notions by some very illustrious examples.
- Chapter XI. In which our heroine, being mistaken herself, gives occasion for a great many other mistakes.
- Chapter XII. In which our heroine reconciles herself to a mortifying incident, by recollecting an adventure in a romance, similar to her own.
- Chapter XIII. In which our heroine's extravagance will be thought, perhaps, to be carried to an extravagant length.
- Chapter XIV. A dialogue between Arabella and Lucy, in which the latter seems to have the advantage.
- BOOK VIII.
- Chapter I. Contains the conversation referred to in the last chapter of the preceding book.
- Chapter II. In which our heroine, as we presume, shows herself in two very different lights.
- Chapter III. The contrast continued.
- Chapter IV. In which Mr. Glanville makes an unsuccessful attempt upon Arabella.
- Chapter V. In which is introduced a very singular character.
- Chapter VI. Containing something which at first sight may possibly puzzle the reader.
- Chapter VII. In which, if the reader has not anticipated it, he will find an explanation of some seeming inconsistencies in the foregoing chapter.
- Chapter VIII. Which concludes book the eighth.
- BOOK IX.
- Chapter I. In which is related an admirable adventure.
- Chapter II. Which ends with a very unfavourable prediction for our heroine.
- Chapter III. In which Arabella meets with another admirable adventure.
- Chapter IV. In which is related the history of the princess of Gaul.
- Chapter V. A very mysterious chapter.
- Chapter VI. Not much plainer than the former.
- Chapter VII. Containing indeed no great matters, but being a prelude to greater.
- Chapter VIII. Which acquaints the reader with two very extraordinary accidents.
- Chapter IX. Which will be found to contain information absolutely necessary for the right understanding of this history.
- Chapter X. A short chapter indeed, but full of matter.
- Chapter XI. Being, in the author's opinion, the best chapter in this history.
- Chapter XII. In which the history is concluded.
- FINIS.
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