Literature and Mind Post 5: Monomania and The Female Quixote

In The Female Quixote, how does Arabella's obsession with the behavior that goes into love as shown by that of the ancient romances fit into Van Zuylen's definition of monomania?

          "Ah for Heaven's sake cousin, interrupted Glanville, endeavouring to stifle a Laugh, do not suffer yourself to be governed by such antiquated Maxims! The World is quite different to what it was in those Days; and the Ladies in this Age would as soon follow the Fashions of the Greek and Roman Ladies, as mimick their Manners; and I believe they would become one as ill as the other.
          I am sure, replied Arabella, the World is not more virtuous now than it was in their Days...However, I cannot be persuaded, that Things are as you say, and that when I am a little better acquainted with the World, I shall find as many Persons who resemble Oroondates, Artaxerxes, and the illustrious Lover of Clelia, as those who are like Tiribases, Artaxes, and the presuming and insolent Glanville." (The Female Quixote  p. 45)

"While investigating different manifestations of monomania, I discovered that each one of its enactments is part of an abstract, autonomous desire to reorganize the world according to a long-lost model of wholeness...the French Romantic Charles Nodier calls this affliction monomanie reflective, an introspective form of monomania that must turn the world into a personal absolute, an aestheticized version of itself."  (Monomania pp.5-6).

Within Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote, it seems that Arabella could be categorized as struggling with monomania (specifically that which Nodier describes) in regards to her obsession and belief in the archaic ways in which lovers behaved that she reads about in her romances. She definitely has the space necessary to indulge in such  an introspective form, since she lives alone with her women and the Marquis. This does not seem to be the picture of a whole and fulfilled life, which makes it understandable that she would seek her wholeness through romance, but only in the idealized way that has been shown in the books she reads. The rules about love she holds to be true are, in fact, her "personal absolute," which turns out very comical throughout the story. When Glanville attempts to make Arabella face reality and see that nobody else actually follows the rules of decorum that she holds herself and those that interact with her to, she refuses to listen. The reader does see that she finds her life unsatisfying, as she says that "the World is not more virtuous now than it was in their Days," but also sees her blatant denial. She believes that she can go out into the world and find multiple men that will act just like the heroes she holds up to be the best men, but also those that she thinks are villainous. Either way, she believes she will find the world to be what she wants it to be. She has definitely reorganized the world in her mind. Glanville picks up on this and decides he would rather fit the position she has put him in within her mind rather than try to turn her from this obsession.