ISBN: 9780198184775

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… More...

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 lateseventeenth 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 offiction-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). This challenging and lively book also explores the debts early prosefiction owed to French seventeenth-century models of fiction-writing and argues that Behn, Manley, and Haywood succeed in producing a distinctively `English'' and female `form'' for the amatory novel. | Seductive Forms by Ros Ballaster Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Ros Ballaster<

1998, ISBN: 0198184778

[EAN: 9780198184775], Neubuch, [PU: OUP Oxford], LITERARY CRITICISM / WOMEN AUTHORS, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -Historicist and feminist accounts of the 'rise of the novel' hav… More...

[EAN: 9780198184775], Neubuch, [PU: OUP Oxford], LITERARY CRITICISM / WOMEN AUTHORS, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -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 lateseventeenth 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 offiction-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 Frenchseventeenth-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. 244 pp. Englisch, Books<

1998, ISBN: 0198184778

[EAN: 9780198184775], New book, [PU: Clarendon Press], Books