I present in this paper a feminist interpretation of the novel The Female Quixote, by Charlotte Lennox. In my hypothesis, Lennox meets the charge of falsity leveled against early modern novels with a defense of the genre as a tool of social critique and a medium for the achievement and transmission of women's knowledge. Thereby she promotes a revision of the concepts of "truth" and "falsity", while at the same time she endows fictional narratives with ethical, political and epistemic significance.
Fiction; Philosophy; Quixote; Female; Lennox