Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740

Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740

Ballaster, Rosalind

Paperback

Series: Clarendon Paperbacks

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0198184778
ISBN13: 9780198184775
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Jun 11 1998
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.53
Language: English
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 both novelistic production (the seduction of the reader by the writer) and party political machination (the seduction of the public by the politician). The book also explores the debts early prose fiction owes to French seventeenth-century models of fiction-writing and argues that Behn, Manley, and Haywood succeeded in producing a distinctively English and female form for an amatory novel.

Also from

Ballaster, Rosalind

View All

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All