Seductive forms : women's amatory fiction from 1684 to 1740 / Ros Ballaster
1992, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391419
ISBN: 0198112440
Physical description: 232 pages; 20cm. Notes: Originally published: 1992.
Includes bibliography (p. [212]-225) and index. Contents: Introduction -- I. GENDER AND GENRE -- 1. The Rise of the Novel: Gender and Genre in Theories of Prose Fiction -- 2. Observing the Forms: Amatory Fiction and the Construction of a Female Reader -- II. WOMEN WRITERS -- 3. 'A Devil on't, the Woman Damns the Poet': Aphra Behn's Fictions of Feminine Identity -- 4. 'A Genius for Love': Sex as Politics in Delarivier Manley's Scandal Fiction -- 5. 'Preparatives to Love': Fiction as Seduction in Eliza Hay wood's Amatory Prose -- Conclusion: The Decline of Amatory Fiction: Re(de)fining the Female Form -- Bibliography.
Subjects: Behn, Aphra 1640-1689 Fictional works.
Manley Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière) 1663-1724 Fictional works. Haywood, Eliza Fowler 1693?-1756 Criticism and interpretation.
Behn, Aphra 1640-1689 Criticism and interpretation.
Manley, Delarivier Criticism and interpretation. Haywood, Eliza 1693?-1756 Criticism and interpretation. Manley Mrs. 1663-1724 Criticism and interpretation. Behn, Aphra.Aphra 1640-1689 Criticism and interpretation. Haywood, Eliza.Eliza 1693?-1756 Criticism and interpretation. Behn, Aphra 1640-1689 Criticism and interpretation. Manley, Delarivier -1724 Criticism and interpretation. Haywood, Eliza Fowler 1693?-1756 Criticism and interpretation. Behn, Aphra 1640-1689. Manley Mrs. 1663-1724. Haywood, Eliza 1693?-1756. Manley, Delarivier -1724. Haywood, Eliza Fowler 1693?-1756.
Manley Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière) 1663-1724. Criticism and interpretation.
Behn, Aphra 1640-1689.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler 1693?-1756. Manley Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière) 1663-1724. English fiction Women authors History and criticism. Women and literature Great Britain History 18th century. Women and literature Great Britain History 17th century.
Erotic stories, English History and criticism.
Fiction Authorship Sex differences. Literary form History 18th century.
Literary form History 17th century. Seduction in literature. English fiction 18th century History and criticism. English fiction Women authors. English fiction Women authors History and criticism.
Women in literature Great Britain History 18th century.
Women in literature Great Britain History 19th century.
Erotic stories, English History and criticism.
Seduction in literature.
Fiction Authorship Sex differences. Literary form.
English fiction 18th century History and criticism.
English fiction Women authors. English fiction 1625-1702. English fiction 1702-1745. English fiction By women History and criticism. Women authors, English 18th century History & criticism. Erotic fiction, English 18th century History and criticism. Literary form.
Romance fiction, English History and criticism.
Genres littéraires. Séduction dans la littérature. Femmes et littérature Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Femmes et littérature Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle. Roman Art d'écrire Différences entre sexes. English fiction Women authors. Erotic stories, English. Fiction Authorship Sex differences.
Literary form. Romance fiction, English. Seduction in literature. Women and literature. Women in literature Great Britain History 18th century. Women in literature Great Britain History 19th century.
Manley, -- Mrs. -- (Mary de la Rivière), -- 1663-1724 -- Fictional works. Women and literature Great Britain History 18th century. Women and literature Great Britain History 17th century.
Women authors, English
Literary form History 18th century. Literary form History 17th century.
Romance fiction Authorship. English fiction Women authors 17th century. English fiction Women authors 18th century. English fiction Women authors History and criticism. Women in literature Great Britain History 18th century.
Women in literature Great Britain History 19th century.
Erotic stories, English History and criticism.
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