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Love in Excess; Or, the Fatal Enquiry - Couverture souple

Haywood, Eliza

 
9781551113678: Love in Excess; Or, the Fatal Enquiry
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1551113678 ISBN 13 : 9781551113678
Editeur : Broadview Press, 2000

Synopsis

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) was one of the most successful writers of her time; indeed, the two most popular English novels in the early eighteenth-century were Robinson Crusoe and Haywood’s first novel, Love in Excess. As this edition enables modern readers to discover, its enormous success is easy to understand. Love in Excess is a well crafted novel in which the claims of love and ambition are pursued through multiple storylines until the heroine engineers a melodramatic conclusion.

Haywood’s frankness about female sexuality may explain the later neglect of Love in Excess. (In contrast, her accomplished domestic novel, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, has remained available.) Love in Excess and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum.

For the second Broadview edition, the appendix of eighteenth-century responses to Haywood has been considerably expanded.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Oakleaf teaches in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. He specializes in fiction, from Eliza Haywood and Jonathan Swift to Laurence Sterne and Frances Burney.

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Éditeur
Broadview Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1551113678
ISBN 13 
9781551113678
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
296
Éditeur
Oakleaf David
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