The Politics of Genre and Gender in Tabitha Gilman Tenney’s Female Quixotism
The present article focuses on transatlantic female quixotism, as enacted by Tabitha Tenney’s heroine, Dorcasina Sheldon. I argue that quixotism can be read as an interface between the events of the story and the Federalist conservative discourse that underlies them. In doing so, I claim that, in te...
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De Gruyter
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Open Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0043 |