The Victorian Philanthropic Quixote: Donna Quixote, by Justin McCarthy
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https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2012.002Keywords:
Cervantes. Don Quixote, Reception, Victorian Age, Donna Quixote, Philanthropy, Feminisim, New womanAbstract
The paper undertakes the analysis of a little known Victorian quixotic novel, Donna Quixote, by Justin McCarthy. In so doing, it places the latter, in the first place, within the conception of quixotism characteristic of the Victorian age and, in the second place, within the previous tradition of female quixotes, particularly as a response to George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Then, the text studies the novel’s originality within the English quixotic tradition, which lies in the way it relates quixotism to both philanthropy and feminism, not just by means of the heroine but also of some quixotic secondary figures, and argues the author’s conservative position in the debate on women’s rights known as the woman question. Finally, the paper illustrates such a position and its ideological context by presenting another “Donna Quixote,” in this case a satiric cartoon on the so-called new woman.
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