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Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the
Age of the Enlightenment. Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to
her last completed project The Invisible Spy (1755) spanned the
gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals,
propaganda, satire, and translations. Haywood's importance in the
development of the novel is now well-known. A Spy on Eliza Haywood
links this with her work in the other genres in which she published
at least one volume a year throughout her life, demonstrating how
she contributed substantially to making women's writing a locus of
debate that had to be taken seriously by contemporary readers, as
well as now by current scholars of political, moral, and social
enquiries into the eighteenth century. Haywood's work is essential
to the study of eighteenth-century literature and this collection
of essays continues the growing scholarship on this most important
of women writers.
This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the
most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing
awareness of Manley's multifaceted contributions to
eighteenth-century literature, and demonstrates the wide range of
thinking about her literary production and significance. While
contributors reconsider some well-known texts through her generic
intertextuality or unresolved political moments, the volume focuses
more on those works that have had less attention: dramas,
correspondence, journalistic endeavors, and late prose fiction. The
methodological approaches incorporate traditional investigations of
Manley, such as historical research, gender theory, and comparative
close readings, as well as some recently influential theories, like
geocriticism and affect studies. This book forges new paths in the
many underdeveloped directions in Manley scholarship, including her
work's exploration of foreign locales, the power dynamics between
individuals and in relation to states, sexuality beyond
heteronormativity, and the shifting operations and influences of
genre. While it draws on previous writing about Manley's engagement
with Whig/Tory politics, gender, and queerness, it also argues for
Manley's contributions as a writer with wide-ranging knowledge of
both the inner sanctums of London and the outer developing British
Empire, an astute reader of politics, a sophisticated explorer of
emotional and gender dynamics, and a flexible and clever stylist.
In contrast to the many ways Manley has been too easily dismissed,
this collection carefully considers many points of view, and opens
the way for new analyses of Manley's life, work, and vital
contributions to the full range of forms in which she wrote.
This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the
most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing
awareness of Manley's multifaceted contributions to
eighteenth-century literature, and demonstrates the wide range of
thinking about her literary production and significance. While
contributors reconsider some well-known texts through her generic
intertextuality or unresolved political moments, the volume focuses
more on those works that have had less attention: dramas,
correspondence, journalistic endeavors, and late prose fiction. The
methodological approaches incorporate traditional investigations of
Manley, such as historical research, gender theory, and comparative
close readings, as well as some recently influential theories, like
geocriticism and affect studies. This book forges new paths in the
many underdeveloped directions in Manley scholarship, including her
work's exploration of foreign locales, the power dynamics between
individuals and in relation to states, sexuality beyond
heteronormativity, and the shifting operations and influences of
genre. While it draws on previous writing about Manley's engagement
with Whig/Tory politics, gender, and queerness, it also argues for
Manley's contributions as a writer with wide-ranging knowledge of
both the inner sanctums of London and the outer developing British
Empire, an astute reader of politics, a sophisticated explorer of
emotional and gender dynamics, and a flexible and clever stylist.
In contrast to the many ways Manley has been too easily dismissed,
this collection carefully considers many points of view, and opens
the way for new analyses of Manley's life, work, and vital
contributions to the full range of forms in which she wrote.
A collection of pedagogical essays that presents proven strategies
for the teaching of adaptation and eighteenth-century texts The
eighteenth century was a golden age of adaptation: classical epics
were adapted to contemporaneous mock-epics, life writing to novels,
novels to plays, and unauthorized sequels abounded. In our own
time, cultural products of the long eighteenth century continue to
be widely adapted. Early novels such as Robinson Crusoe and
Gulliver's Travels, the founding documents of the United States,
Jane Austen's novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-all of these have
been adapted so often that they are ubiquitous cultural mythoi,
even for people who have never read them. Eighteenth-century texts
appear in consumer products, comics, cult mashups, fan fiction,
films, network and streaming shows, novels, theater stagings, and
web serials. Adapting the Eighteenth Century provides innovative,
hands-on pedagogies for teaching eighteenth-century studies and
adaptation across disciplines and levels. Among the works treated
in or as adaptations are novels by Austen, Defoe, and Shelley, as
well as the current worldwide musical sensation Hamilton. Essays
offer tested models for the teaching of practices such as close
reading, collaboration, public scholarship, and research; in
addition, they provide a historical grounding for discussions of
such issues as the foundations of democracy, critical race and
gender studies, and notions of genre. The collection as a whole
demonstrates the fruitfulness of teaching about adaptation in both
period-specific and generalist courses across the curriculum.
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