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

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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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 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 digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Fictional works Manley, Delarivier, -1724 -- Fictional works Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 fast Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756 fast Manley, Delarivier, -1724 fast Behn, Aphra, (1640-1689) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Manley, Mary de la Riviere, (1663-1724) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Haywood, Eliza, (1693?-1756) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Subject 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 Fiction -- Authorship -- Sex differences Literary form Seduction in literature 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. 18.05 English literature. 18.06 Anglo-American literature. Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0585352666 9780585352664 9780191674341 0191674346 9780191656514 0191656518

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