Seductive Forms
Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740
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 b…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-165651-4
- EAN: 9780191656514
- Produktnummer: 18295443
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 12'962 KB
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