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Beyond Spectacle : Eliza Haywood's Female Spectators
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Beyond Spectacle will cement Haywood's deservedly prominent place in the canon of eighteenth-century fiction and position her as a writer whose work speaks not only to female agency, but to eightee...
Beyond Spectacle will cement Haywood's deservedly prominent place in the canon of eighteenth-century fiction and position her as a writer whose work speaks not only to female agency, but to eighteenth-century writers, gender relations, and power politics as well.
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- Creator
- Juliette Merritt
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- Language
- English
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2004
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9781442671379, 1442671378
- OCLC
- ocn999362156
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Gazing in the Eighteenth Century: Eliza Haywood's Specular Negotiations -- Chapter One. An Excess of Spectacle: The Failure of Female Curiosity in Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry -- Chapter Two. Peepers, Picts, and Female Masquerade: Performances of the Female Gaze in Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze -- Chapter Three. From Image to Text: The Discourse of Abandonment and Textual Agency in The British Recluse; or, The Secret History of Cleomira, Supposed Dead -- Chapter Four. The Spectatorial Text: Spying, Writing, Authority in The Invisible Spy and Bath Intrigues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index