Seductive forms : women's amatory fiction from 1684-1740

Seductive forms : women's amatory fiction from 1684-1740 / Ros Ballaster.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ballaster, Rosalind.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Behn, Aphra, > 1640-1689 > Fictional works.
Manley, Delarivier, > -1724 > Fictional works.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, > 1693?-1756 > Criticism and interpretation.
Behn, Aphra, > 1640-1689.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, > 1693?-1756.
Manley, Delarivier, > -1724
Behn, Aphra, > (1640-1689) > Critique et interprétation.
Manley, Mary de la Riviere, > (1663-1724) > Critique et interprétation.
Haywood, Eliza, > (1693?-1756) > Critique et interprétation.
1600-1799
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Erotic stories, English > History and criticism.
Fiction > Authorship > Sex differences.
Seduction in literature.
Literary form.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction > Women authors.
Erotic stories, English.
Women and literature.
Liefdesromans.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Séduction > Dans la littérature.
Roman anglais > Femmes écrivains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > Thèmes, motifs.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > 1603-1714 (Stuarts)
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siècle.
Littérature anglaise > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature française > Histoire et critique > 17e siècle.
Femmes écrivains anglaises.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Table of 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.

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