Seduction as instruction: the female author as Pygmalion in long Eighteenth-Century quixotic novels

Miriam Borham-Puyal

doi:10.18172/jes.3217

Autores/as

Miriam Borham-Puyal University of Salamanca

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.3217

Palabras clave:

Quijotismo, lectura mimética, intertextualidad, novelas didácticas, escritoras, crítica literaria

Resumen

Don Quijote ha jugado un papel fundamental en los cambios estéticos e ideológicos que tuvieron lugar en el largo siglo XVIII al convertirse en un instrumento en manos de diferentes autores para validar su trabajo artístico en contraposición a la producción de otros. Nuevas novelas didácticas alegan la necesidad de superar los suprasistemas románticos que ofrecen otros autores e incluso el canon patriarcal o colonial que se había establecido. En concreto, este artículo se centrará en dos novelistas, Tabitha Tenney y Mary Brunton, quienes desarrollan una historia de seducción literaria y literal para alzar su voz contra una indisputada integración romántica en novelas didácticas, y quienes incluso convierten a los anteriores autores cervantinos en el origen del quijotismo de sus protagonistas.

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Biografía del autor/a

Miriam Borham-Puyal, University of Salamanca

Dr. Miriam Borham-Puyal has authored the monograph Quixotes in Petticoats (2015), and has written several articles and book chapters on female quixotism and satirical quixotes in the long eighteenth century, as well as an entry for the Great Cervantean Encyclopedia. She is a teacher at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

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