Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Reading, Writing, and Tilting at Windmills: The Woman Writer and the Female Quixote 1
5. 1. The Model Quixote: Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote 27
6. 2. The Defiant Quixote: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Manuscript Romance, and the Market for Mid- Century Fiction 49
7. 3. The Instructive Quixote: Maria Edgeworth, Affective Reading, and the Limits of Didactic Writing 74
8. 4. The Anonymous Quixote? Sarah Green, the Popular Novel(ist), and Posterity 104
9. 5. The Engaged Quixote: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey 132
10. Epilogue: Screening Female Quixotism: Janeite Fangirls and the Persistence of White, Heteropatriarchal Power 151
11. Notes 163
12. Bibliography 221
13. Index 243
14. About the Author 253