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Genre & Gender, position of a literary critic, distinguishing what is…

- - - - B7C7:convers° about fashion can be read // a treatise on literature
        
        AB: "the present mode" = // novel
        vs "obselete": romance
        => AB prefers romance: wants to be dressed // Princess Julia, in obsolete clothes
        :red_flag:sartorial metaphor = used to talk abt fact she is gendered in her reading, & in her way of being dressed => constant articul° genre & gender: visible
      - AB: reads romance & pretends to be heroine of a romance evolving in a novel
        
        forced to be heroine of a novel
        
        By Glanville > Countess & Divine
        
        AB does not care about her clothes
         note edition: typical of a romance heroine not to care about the way she's dressed vs coquettish figures
- - - - knowledge history
        
        ridiculing Sir Charles
        
        denies existence the ancient kingdoms of Scythia & Mauretania AB refers to: I believe their Kingdoms are in the Moon +
        => mocks her but he's being made ridicule
        
        B5C6: SG: Sure U mistake, Niece; there never was such a thing heard of in the World.
        What, Sir, said Arabella, will you contradict a Fact attested by the greatest Historians that ever were?
        
        ridiculing Mr. Selvin
        B7
        
        publicly:
        
        The Shame he conceived at seeing himself posed by a Girl, in a Matter which so immediately belonged to him, made him resolve to draw himself out of this Dilemma at any Rate
        
         Glanville going to be a witness of one of their conversations B7C8: Mr. Selvin, not daring to contradict a Lady whose extensive Reading had furnish’d her with Anecdotes unknown almost to any Body else, by his Silence confess’d her Superiority
        => voicelessness
        
        ridiculed by the NV: insistence on his extensive knowledge
        
        1.Mr. Selvin, who, with all his Reading […] was extremely disconcerted at not being able to continue a Conversation[…]
        
        for, to his certain Knowledge, there were no medicinal Waters at the Foot of that Mountain.
        
        Mr. Selvin, surprised that this Piece of History had likewise escaped his Observatio
        
        I think, Madam, replied he, with great Self−sufficiency, that I am pretty well acquainted with every thing which relates to the Affairs of the Athenian Commonwealth;
        
        strong refusal to accept to be wrong in front of a woman
        
        resolved, however, not to give up his Point.
        
        yet he resolutely maintained, that she must be mistaken in their Situation
        
        AB's strong determination
        
        Arabella, who could not endure to be contradicted in what she took to be so incontestable a Fact, reddened with Vexation at his unexpected Denial
        
        It should seem, said she, by your Discourse, that you are unacquainted with many material Passages, that passed among very illustrious Persons there; […]
        
        8.You are mistaken, Sir, said Arabella,
        =
        
        AB: the figure of the critic vs a man :
        voice vs silence
      - knowedge in literature
        
        She over-quotes characters of romances & romans précieux, showing her literary culture
         Romance: a tool of empowerment?