The Masqueraders, or Fatal Curiosity, and the Surprize, or Constancy Rewarded - Couverture souple

Haywood, Eliza

 
9781442615878: The Masqueraders, or Fatal Curiosity, and the Surprize, or Constancy Rewarded
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ISBN 10 : 1442615877 ISBN 13 : 9781442615878
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2015

Synopsis

The most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, controversial, and sometimes disturbing, Haywood's short novels The Masqueraders and The Surprize are valuable sources for the study of eighteenth-century gender and identity, the social history of masquerade, the dangers of courtship and seduction, and conceptions of elite and popular cultures. Despite their common theme of masquerade and seduction, the two short novels are a study in contrasts. The Masqueraders features the whirl of London life, with a libertine anti-hero and his serial seductions of women who believe that they can manipulate the social conventions that are expected to limit them. The Surprize, on the other hand, is an uncharacteristically sentimental story in which a similarly salacious plot ends in rewards for the good and virtuous. Well suited to the teaching of these two texts, this volume contains annotated scholarly editions of both novels, an extensive introduction, and useful appendices that discuss the masquerade's role in eighteenth-century debates on gender, morality, and identity.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was a novelist, bookseller, playwright, editor of periodicals, and occasional actress. Tiffany Potter teaches eighteenth-century British and American literature at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent book is the edited collection Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1442615877
ISBN 13 
9781442615878
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Éditeur
Potter Tiffany
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1442647795 ISBN 13 :  9781442647794
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2015
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