German Quixotism, or Sentimental Reading: Musäus's Richardson Satires

Heins, John P.

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“…Not only does the title and plot echo and rework Lennox, but the eponymous quixote, Dorcasina, emulates Harriet from Samuel Richardson's History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753–4). Likewise, in Johann Karl August Musäus’ German parodies of Sir Charles Grandison : Grandison der Zweite, oder Geschichte des Herrn v. N*** in Briefen entworfen (1760–62) and Der deutsche Grandison: Auch eine Familiengeschichte (1781–82), the quixotic protagonist is “a duped reader, a German puppet of an English authorial master,” raising directly in the text issues of “national, cultural, or linguistic differences” (Heins, 2004, p. 421) 11…”

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The quixotic eighteenth century

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2022

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“Quixotism” is a term pivotal to the histories critics tell about literature. Despite a scholarly consensus regarding the significance of quixotism to eighteenth‐century transatlantic writing, there remain vast discrepancies in critical formulations of what quixotism actually is, to the point where trying to find common ground in different scholars' definitions of quixotism might appear, at first glance, a quixotic endeavour. Yet scholarship on quixotism persistently returns to dichotomies: romance versus the novel; the exceptional versus the typical; the original versus the copy; reason versus imagination. Quixotism remains both vexing question and floating signifier, caught between character and genre, system and allusion as it traverses and transforms eighteenth‐century literature and culture. In this article I will both reflect on the state of quixotic studies in eighteenth‐century studies and offer an account of Don Quixote's place in the history of literary criticism and theory.

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Quixotes, Imitations, and Transatlantic Genres

Bannet¹

2007

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Quixotic texts in the British Atlantic tested the cultural fit of common transnational models through the eruption into rural English or American localities of persons whose conduct and values had been fashioned by them. Fielding, Brackenridge, Lennox and Tenney also contrasted the absurdly "servile" imitation of their quixotes with their own more sophisticated techniques of imitation, to address questions of national difference raised by ubiquitous transnational imitation among the "polite." Imitative practices enable us to see how genres traveled between nations, and offer historically grounded transnational approaches based on the history of writing and reading.

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Book Fetish: Joachim Heinrich Campe and the Commodification of Literature

Erlin

2006

Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies

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German Quixotism, or Sentimental Reading: Musäus's Richardson Satires

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

The quixotic eighteenth century

The quixotic eighteenth century

Quixotes, Imitations, and Transatlantic Genres

Book Fetish: Joachim Heinrich Campe and the Commodification of Literature

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