Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
Contents |
The rise of the novel: gender and genre in theories of prose fiction -- Observing the forms: amatory fiction and the constitution of a female reader -- "A devil on't, the woman damns the poet": Aphra Behn's fictions of feminine identity -- "A genius for love": sex as politics in Delarivier Manley's scandal fiction -- "Preparatives to love": fiction as seduction in Eliza Haywood's amatory prose -- Conclusion: The decline of amatory fiction: re(de)fining the female form |
Summary |
This book explores the ways in which three women novelists of the late-17th and early-18th centuries challenged and reworked both contemporary gender ideologies and generic convention |
Analysis |
English fiction By Women |
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Romantic fiction |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-225) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Fictional works
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Manley, Delarivier, -1724 -- Fictional works
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Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 |
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Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756 |
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Manley, Delarivier, -1724 |
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Behn, Aphra, (1640-1689) -- Critique et interprétation. |
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Manley, Mary de la Riviere, (1663-1724) -- Critique et interprétation. |
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Haywood, Eliza, (1693?-1756) -- Critique et interprétation. |
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Erotic stories, English -- History and criticism
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Fiction -- Authorship -- Sex differences
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Seduction in literature.
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Literary form.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Criticism and interpretation
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English fiction -- Women authors
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Erotic stories, English
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Fiction -- Authorship -- Sex differences
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Literary form
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Seduction in literature
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Women and literature
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Liefdesromans.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Séduction -- Dans la littérature.
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Roman anglais -- Femmes écrivains -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature anglaise -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature anglaise -- Thèmes, motifs.
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Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1603-1714 (Stuarts)
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Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle.
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Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature française -- Histoire et critique -- 17e siècle.
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Femmes écrivains anglaises.
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18.05 English literature.
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18.06 Anglo-American literature.
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0585352666 |
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9780585352664 |
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9780191674341 |
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0191674346 |
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9780191656514 |
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0191656518 |