The Female Quixote, or the Adventures of Arabella
Format: library binding
ISBN:
9780839811558 (0839811551)
Publish date: June 1st 1979
Publisher: Irvington Publishers
Pages no: 603
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
English Literature,
18th Century
This was fun, mostly because it's a satire that can no longer pain anyone (directly). The romances upon which Arabella is so fixated are long since gone from popular culture. The assumptions she wrongly draws from them (because of her isolation) - that men die of love, and women have to pardon them ...
Part of graduate school. It was ok but parts were dreadfully boring.