Beschreibung:
Explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and embody their readings.
List of Illustrations iiiAcknowledgements ivAbbreviations vi Introduction: Impressions and the Quixotic Reader 1 1. Marking the Eyes in The Female Quixote 30 2. Performing Print in Polly Honeycombe: A Dramatick Novel 70 3. Penetrating Readers in Tristram Shandy 116 4. Enthusiasm, Methodism and Metaphors in The Spiritual Quixote 156 5. Citational Quixotism in Memoirs of Modern Philosophers 206 Conclusions: Quixotic Impressions in the Nineteenth Century 254 Bibliography 263 Index 298 About the Author 299