The passionate fictions of Eliza Haywood : essays on her life and work / edited by Kirsten T. Saxton and Rebecca P. Bocchicchio.

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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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-347) and index.

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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. 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.

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