The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood

Essays on Her Life and Work

Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio, Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio

• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780813121611
• eBook ISBN: 9780813182629
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

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.

Index

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Abbé de l’Epée (Bouilly)

abortion

Addison, Joseph

Adventures of Eovaai, The (Haywood)

comic energies in

the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and

Gulliver’s Travels and

Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees and

metacommentary in

misogyny and

narrative structure

narrator in

opposition politics and

parallels with Manley’s works

publishing history

rationality and passion in

translation and interpretation in

Walpole and

Adventures of Rivella, The (Manley)

aesthetics: Fantomina and

Agreeable Caledonian, The (Haywood)

A Letter from H——G——(Haywood)

amatory codes: in Fantomina

amatory fiction: conventions of narrative transparency and

partisan allegories and

persecuted maiden type

stereotypic female victims

Of Haywood (see also individual works); as formulaic

Haywood’s defense of

hysteria in

late 18th century perceptions of

modern views of

pastoral strategies and

popularity of

primacy of passion in

reactions to

Richetti on

seduction in

women readers and

America

Amman, Jean Coenrad

anger: in The City Jilt

of women toward Duncan Campbell

“animal spirits”. See also hysteria

Anne, Queen of England

anonymous publications

Anti-Pamela (Haywood)

Armstrong, Nancy

attributions: history of

by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

literary history and

of the Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput

by Pope

Aubin, Penelope

Austen, Jane

authorial commentaries

Author’s Farce and the Pleasures of the Town, The (Fielding)

Authors of the Town, The (Savage)

Author to be Lett, An (Savage)

Backscheider, Paula

Bailey, Nathan

Ballaster, Ros

on Haywood’s heroines and sexual desire

on Haywood’s transformation

on hysteria in Haywood’s works

Bannett, Eve

Barbauld, Letitia

Barker, Jane

Barreca, Regina

Battestin, Martin

Beasley, Jerry

Behn, Aphra

La Belle Assemblee (Gomez)

Bender, John

Blackmore, Richard

blindness: Duncan Campbell on

Blouch, Christine

Bohls, Elizabeth

Bolingbroke, First Viscount. See St. John, Henry

Bond, William

Bonnie Prince Charles. See Charles Edward

Book of Common Prayer

Bouilly, Jean-Nicholas

Bowers, Toni

Braidwood, Thomas

Braidwood’s deaf school

Brewer, David

British Recluse, The (Haywood): erotic discourse in

experimentation with fictional forms in

female companionship in

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and

hysteria in

pasto...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Story of Eliza Haywood’s Novels: Caveats and Questions Paula R. Backscheider
• Collusive Resistance: Sexual Agency and Partisan Politics in Love in Excess Toni Bowers
• Masquing Desire: The Politics of Passion in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina Margaret Case Croskery
• “Blushing, Trembling, and Incapable of Defense”: The Hysterics of The British Recluse Rebecca P. Bocchicchio
• Telling Tales: Eliza Haywood and the Crimes of Seduction in The City Jilt, or, the Alderman turn’d Beau Kirsten T. Saxton
• A Gender of Opposition: Eliza Haywood’s Scandal Fiction Ros Ballaster
• “A Race of Angels”: Castration and Exoticism in Three Exotic Tales by Eliza Haywood Jennifer Thorn
• Speechless: Haywood’s Deaf and Dumb Projector Felicity A. Nussbaum
• “Haywood,” Secret History, and the Politics of Attribution David Brewer
• Histories by Eliza Haywood and Henry Fielding: Imitation and Adaptation John Richetti
• Shooting Blanks: Potency, Parody, and Eliza Haywood’s The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless Andrea Austin
• “Shady bowers! and purling streams!—Heavens, how insipid!”: Eliza Haywood’s Artful Pastoral David Oakleaf
• “What Ann Lang Read”: Eliza Haywood and Her Readers Christine Blouch
• Works Cited
• Contributors
• Index