Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism: Quixotism in English Novels, 1742-1801 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Henry Fielding and the Rhetoric of Quixotic Benevolence: Don Quixote in England -- Chapter 2 The Institutionalization of a New Genre Based on a Productive Tautology: Henry Fielding's Comic Romance and Quixotism -- Chapter 3 From Don Quixote's Lance to Parson Adams' Quixotic Benevolence -- Chapter 4 Quixotism, Moral Sentiment and Mandevillian Economics in Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last -- Chapter 5 The Bad Effects of Sentimental Quixotism: Unprincipled Sentiment as Virtue in Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling -- Chapter 6 Feminizing Quixotism: The Politics of Genre and Gender in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote -- Chapter 7 A Tale of Faith and Love: Religious Enthusiasm and Natural Affection in Richard Graves' The Spiritual Quixote -- Coda: Charles Lucas' The Infernal Quixote, Radicalism and the Comic Sense of Moral Reform -- Bibliography -- Index.