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

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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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Autres auteurs: Bocchicchio, Rebecca P., 1967- (Éditeur intellectuel), Saxton, Kirsten T., 1965- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, > 1693?-1756.
Women and literature.
Novelists, English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Romanciers anglais > 18e siecle > Biographies.
Women and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Novelists, English > 18th century > Biography.
England.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Résumé: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. Also one of Augustan England's most popular authors, Haywood came to fame in 1719 with the publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition to writing fiction, she was a playwright, translator, bookseller, actress, theater critic, and editor of The Female Spectator, the first English pe.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (378 pages).
ISBN:9780813147635

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