TY - BOOK AU - Dale,Amelia TI - The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain T2 - Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 SN - 9781684481064 AV - PR441 .D35 2019eb U1 - 820.9/005 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Lewisburg, PA PB - Bucknell University Press KW - Books and reading KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - quixotes, eighteenth-century, female reading, imagination, Tristram Shandy, Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, Elizabeth Hamilton, Richard Graves, George Colman, Polly Honeycombe, Spiritual Quixote, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers, impression, imprint N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Impressions and the Quixotic Reader --; 1. Marking the Eyes in The Female Quixote --; 2. Performing Print in Polly Honeycombe, a Dramatick Novel of One Act --; 3. Penetrating Readers in Tristram Shandy --; 4. Enthusiasm, Methodists, and Metaphors in The Spiritual Quixote --; 5. Citational Quixotism in Memoirs of Modern Philosophers --; Conclusion: Quixotic Impressions in the Nineteenth Century --; Acknowledgments --; Note --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies)​ The Printed Reader 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. Through intersecting readings of quixotic narratives, including work by Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, George Colman, Richard Graves, and Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Dale argues that literature was envisaged as imprinting—most crucially, in gendered terms—the reader’s mind, character, and body. The Printed Reader brings together key debates concerning quixotic narratives, print culture, sensibility, empiricism, book history, and the material text, connecting developments in print technology to gendered conceptualizations of quixotism. Tracing the meanings of quixotic readers’ bodies, The Printed Reader claims the social and political text that is the quixotic reader is structured by the experiential, affective, and sexual resonances of imprinting and impressions. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press UR - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684481064?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684481064 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781684481064/original ER -