Cathy N. Davidson

Standard Name: Davidson, Cathy N.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Tabitha Tenney
Since the late twentieth century, appreciation of Female Quixotism has grown. Cathy N. Davidson in her foreword to the paperback edition asserts that it is one of the best novels written in America before 1825...
Publishing Susanna Haswell Rowson
It was advertised for sale on 21 January. SHR 's preface defines her audience as the young and thoughtless of the fair sex.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 544
The only known copy, at the University of Virginia ...
Textual Features Tabitha Tenney
With Charlotte Lennox 's The Female Quixote as starting-point, this story follows a novel-reading heroine whose response to events and people in actual life is distorted by what she reads. It seems quite likely that...

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Texts

Davidson, Cathy N., and Tabitha Tenney. “Foreword”. Female Quixotism, edited by Jean Nienkamp et al., Oxford University Press, 1992, p. v - vii.
Davidson, Cathy N., and Hannah Webster Foster. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Coquette, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. vii - xxiv.
Ellison, Julie. “Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton”. Subjects and Citizens, edited by Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University Press, 1995, pp. 57-86.
Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Foster, Hannah Webster. The Coquette. Editor Davidson, Cathy N., Oxford University Press, 1986.
Davidson, Cathy N. “The Life and Times of Charlotte Temple: The Biography of a Book”. Reading in America: Literature and Social History, edited by Cathy N. Davidson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp. 157-79.
Davidson, Cathy N., and Linda Wagner-Martin, editors. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1995.