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 periodical written by women for
women. Though tremendously popular, her novels and plays from the
1720s and 30s scandalized the reading public with explicit
portrayals of female sexuality and led others to call her "the
Great Arbitress of Passion."
Essays in this collection explore themes such as the connections
between Haywood's early and late work, her experiments with the
form of the novel, her involvement in party politics, her use of
myth and plot devices, and her intense interest in the imbalance of
power between men and women. Distinguished scholars such as Paula
Backschieder, Felicity Nussbaum, and John Richetti approach Haywood
from a number of theoretical and topical positions, leading the way
in a crucial reexamination of her work. The Passionate Fictions of
Eliza Haywood examines the formal and ideological complexities of
her prose and demonstrates how Haywood's texts deft traditional
schematization.
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