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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Eliza Haywood"”.
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"Her panting heart beat measures of consent": Women's Sexual Agency in Eliza Haywood's Fiction
Through her texts depicting amorous adventures, Eliza Haywood engages with critical, contemporary discussions about power relations and consent in both social and legal constructs. Her texts resist the boundary between the private domain of interpersonal relationships and the public domain of …
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Cunning Authors and Bad Readers: Gendered Authorship in "Love in Excess"
Although the works of eighteenth-century novelist Eliza Haywood have attracted scholarly attention in the past several decades, the number of thorough analyses of her individual works remains low. This thesis aims to help fill this gap by providing a close reading of Haywood’s first novel, Love in …
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Relational Selves in Eighteenth-Century Literature
… works by James Thomson, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and D.A.F. Sade, I argue that their literary portrayals of male and female selves cultivate a far more fluid sense of identity, one that ultimately derives from the libertine world of the Restoration and its fugitive desires. By …
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Natural history and British women writers, 1730-1830
… Writers, 1730-1830, argues that women, including Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley, often claimed scientific superiority to naturalists to destabilize seemingly fixed identities and revise not only biological but also social and literary taxonomies. For example, my third chapter …
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Change of Condition: Women's Rhetorical Strategies on Marriage, 1710-1756
… Montagu, Hester Mulso Chapone, Mary Delany, and Eliza Haywood recorded their anxieties about and their criticisms of marriage in public and private writings from the early years of the century into the 1750s. They often elide their own complex backgrounds in favor of generalized policy statements …
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Wayward Women, Virtuous Violence: Feminine Violence in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Women
… and discussions of pertinent literary works by Eliza Haywood, Susanna Centlivre, Delarivier Manley, Aphra Behn, Mary Pix, and Jane Wiseman, the dissertation examines issues of interpersonal violence and communal violence committed by women.
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… literacy, as exemplified in the writings of Eliza Haywood. Chapter 4 extends these trends into the picturesque and botanical cults of the late eighteenth century to trace the emergence of the greenhouse not only to display tropical rarities, but also to stage anxieties about the economy that …
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Equal Ardor: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction, and the Recasting of the Novel, 1680--1760
… virtue. By placing novels by Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood at the center of the history of the novel, I argue that female selfhood in the early novel was contingent on the heroine's erotic desire, and that amatory fiction encouraged complex responses to love, marriage, and the sexual double …
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The widow's might: Law and the widow in British fiction, 1689-1792.
… Short fictions by Aphra Behn, Jane Barker, and Eliza Haywood, and novels by Frances Sheridan, Sarah Scott and Clara Reeve are analyzed to assess a widow's entitlement to desire, to examine her capacity for narrative agency, and to question her security in a transactional economy. Although the …
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Eighteenth-century fiction and the production of shame, 1680-1753
… subject, women writers such as Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, and Charlottle Lennox consistently decouple shame from virtue to expose the limitations of the virtuous principles in the world of the conduct manual and moral novel. The introduction considers the historical relationship between the …
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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755
… by Aphra Behn (herself a radical thinker) and Eliza Haywood, among other writers. These writers and others found that Jews and Judaism offered a compelling model for toleration—especially in light of the increasingly assimilated Anglo-Jewish community, and integrated aspects of Jewish thought, …
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Eliza Haywood's Feigning Femmes Fatale: Desirous and Deceptive Women in "Fantomina," <em>Love in Excess</em>, and <em>The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless</em>.
<p>Within the pages of Eliza Haywood's novels, masquerade is often used by female characters as a means by which to gain control or power. More specifically, Haywood's female characters often misrepresent themselves as a means by which to achieve sexual power and even to obtain sexual …
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Garden Doors: Tempting The Virtuous Heroine In Clarissa And Betsy Thoughtless
Gardens in Eliza Haywood's The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or a History of a Young Lady provide a place for the characters to gain knowledge; but without preparation to receive this knowledge - if restrained behind the veil of decorum - they come to harm, …
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Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
… from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-Haywood, Defoe, Austen, and Chopin-this work examines the way the mother's importance evolves throughout literature. In Haywood's works, motherhood is seen as a dominant force in her child's life, but not a dominant force in society. Defoe …