Chapter 3. The Ambivalent Rise of the Novel Reader: Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Abbreviations of Titles XI
5. Part I
6. Chapter 1. Writing the Reader 3
7. Chapter 2. The Reader in the Text: Dramatizing Literary Communication 30
8. Part II
9. Chapter 3. The Ambivalent Rise of the Novel Reader: Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote 55
10. Chapter 4. The Institutionalization of Novel Reading: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey 91
11. Chapter 5. Psychologizing Reading as Social Behaviour: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife 126
12. Part III
13. Chapter 6. Looking Forward, Looking Back: Novel Reading in the Twenty-First Century 169
14. Chapter 7. Taking Stock of the Novel Reader’s History: Ian McEwan’s Atonement 175
15. Chapter 8. The Nostalgic Future of Novel Reading: Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader 201
16. Concluding Remarks 225
17. Works Cited 234
18. Index of Names 254