Rosella, or Modern Occurrences Taylor & Francis Ltd

Mary Charlton´s 1799 Rosella, or Modern Occurrences is a fascinating novel that brokers between conservative and feminist ideas, humour and horror, and indulgence in and ridicule of sentimental tropes. Written in imitation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1615) and Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752), Rosella belongs to a large class of comic works in which female readers and novelists are satirized. Accompanied by a new introduction by Professor Natalie Neill, this title will be of great interest to ...