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She was famous for her book The Female Quixote

the new sense of wonder involved both skepticism and imagined possibility

Victorian Literature and Culture Series

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17086 JASP21Author with minor flaws on theOng brings together existentialist philosphies of Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Beauvoir with readings of the literary novel to discuss how novels address our knowledge of existence. She reframes classic debates about novels in her readings of Tolstoy, Eliot, Austen, James, Flaubert, and Zola. Philisophical ideas of self knowledge, freedom, authority, the individual's relationship with the world, and the project of improving humanness are examined. How do