Historicist and feminist accounts of the "rise of the novel" have neglected the phenomenon of the professional woman writer in England prior to the advent of the sentimental novel in the 1740s. Seductive Forms explores the means by which the three leading Tory women novelists of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries challenged and reworked both contemporary gender ideologies and generic convention. The seduction plot provided Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood with a vehicle for dramatizing ...
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Historicist and feminist accounts of the "rise of the novel" have neglected the phenomenon of the professional woman writer in England prior to the advent of the sentimental novel in the 1740s. Seductive Forms explores the means by which the three leading Tory women novelists of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries challenged and reworked both contemporary gender ideologies and generic convention. The seduction plot provided Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood with a vehicle for dramatizing their own appropriation of the "masculine" power of fiction-making. Seduction is employed in these fictions as a metaphor for both novelistic production (the seduction of the reader by the writer) and party political machination (the seduction of the public by the politician). The book also explores the debts early prose fiction owes to French seventeenth-century models of fiction-writing and argues that Behn, Manley, and Haywood succeeded in producing a distinctively "English" and female "form" for an amatory novel.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 232 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 91043583 Type of material Book Personal name Ballaster, Rosalind. Main title Seductive forms: women's amatory fiction from 1684-1740 / Ros Ballaster. Published/Created Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Description 232 p.; 23 cm. ISBN 0198112440 LC classification PR858. W6 B34 1992 LC Subjects Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689--Fictional works. Manley, Delarivier, -1724--Fictional works. Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693? -1756--Criticism and interpretation. 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. Literary form--History--18th century. Literary form--History--17th century. Seduction in literature. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-225) and index. Dewey class no. 823/.085099287/09032 Geographic area code e-uk---
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