Description
In this study Norman Simms undertakes the arduous task of analyzing the innermost twists and turns of the mind of Charlotte Lennox (ca. 1720/30 1804), ne Ramsay, as she portrays them in her works and her fictitious personae, particularly Arabella, the main character of The Female Quixote, or the Adventures of Arabella (1752). Through a well planned and extremely well presented exegesis supported by first-hand historical documentation, as well as internal evidence from the authors writings intertwined with an equally well organized heuristic methodology, spanning from Psychology, Psychiatry, Religion and Philosophy to historical events of fifteenth-century Europe, Norman Simms offers the only full-length study of Charlotte Lennoxs true intentions when it came to express on paper her covert feelings regarding women and the oppressed in eighteenth-century England and her possessions overseas, the latter category embracing Jews, Conversos, and the confused as in the case of those whose mind appears to have left them, temporarily or not. –
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