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The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood : Essays on Her Life and Work /

The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693-1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bocchicchio, Rebecca P., 1967- (Editor ), Saxton, Kirsten T., 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The story of Eliza Haywood's novels: caveats and questions / Paula R. Backscheider
  • Collusive resistance: sexual agency and partisan politics in Love in excess / Toni Bowers
  • Masquing desire: the politics of passion in Eliza Haywood's Fantomina / Margaret Case Croskery
  • "Blushing, trembling, and incapable of defense": the hysterics of the British recluse / Rebecca P. Bocchiccio
  • Telling tales: Eliza Haywood and the crimes of seduction in The city jilt, or the Alderman turn'd beau / Kirsten T. Saxton
  • A gender of opposition: Eliza Haywood's scandal fiction / Ros Ballaster
  • "A race of angels": castration and exoticism in three exotic tales by Eliza Haywood / Jennifer Thorn
  • Speechless: Haywood's deaf and dumb projector / Felicity A. Nussbausm
  • "Haywood," secret history, and the politics of attribution / David Brewer
  • Histories by Eliza Haywood and Henry Fielding: imigination and adaptation / John Richetti
  • Shooting blanks: potency, parody, and Eliza Haywood's The history of Miss Betsy Thoughtless / Andrea Austin
  • "Shady bowers! and purling streams! Heavens, how insipid!": Eliza Haywood's artful pastoral / David Oakleaf
  • "What Ann Lang read": Eliza Haywood and her readers / Christine Blouch.