Author: Mary Davys
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Reform'd Coquet, And, Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; The Mercenary Lover, by Eliza Haywood
The Reform'd Coquet, Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady, and The Accomplish'd Rake
Author: Mary Davys
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Reform'd Coquette (1724) tells the story of Amoranda, a good but flighty young woman whose tendency toward careless behavior is finally tamed. Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725), a satire of both political debate and women's place in society, portrays a Tory man and a Whig woman who find themselves discussing love, even though they have pledged to remain platonic friends. The Accomplish'd Rake (1727) follows the exploits of Sir John Galliard from youth to manhood, when he is forced to accept responsibility for his actions. Mary Davys (1674?-1732) was one of the earliest female novelists in Britain, and after the death of her husband she supported herself by writing and running a coffeehouse. Her writing sparkles, especially in its witty dialogue. Although these three short epistolary novels are framed in a clear moral universe in which virtue is rewarded and transgressions is punished, her works are not overtly religious and punishment is as likely to come from society as from providence.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Reform'd Coquette (1724) tells the story of Amoranda, a good but flighty young woman whose tendency toward careless behavior is finally tamed. Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725), a satire of both political debate and women's place in society, portrays a Tory man and a Whig woman who find themselves discussing love, even though they have pledged to remain platonic friends. The Accomplish'd Rake (1727) follows the exploits of Sir John Galliard from youth to manhood, when he is forced to accept responsibility for his actions. Mary Davys (1674?-1732) was one of the earliest female novelists in Britain, and after the death of her husband she supported herself by writing and running a coffeehouse. Her writing sparkles, especially in its witty dialogue. Although these three short epistolary novels are framed in a clear moral universe in which virtue is rewarded and transgressions is punished, her works are not overtly religious and punishment is as likely to come from society as from providence.
The Reform'd Coquet and Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady, by Mary Davys. The Mercenary Lover, by Eliza Haywood. With a New Introd. for the Garland Ed. by Josephine Grieder
The Reform'd Coquet and Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady-The Mercenary Lover
Author: Eliza Fowler Haywood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Reform'd Coquet and Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady
Author: Mary Davys
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Female Pen
Author: Bridget G. MacCarthy
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814755186
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Had B.G. MacCarthy's criticism been available, Showalter's A Literature of Their Own would have been a very different kind of book...In some ways, contemporary could be ten years ahead if we had started the climb from MacCarthy's groundwork." —Maggie Humm, University of East London Back in print for the first time since the 1940's, this classic work of pre-feminist literary criticism is a challenging and authoritative assessment of women's contributions to English literature. B. G. MacCarthy, widely praised for the originality of her scholarship, challenges the dominant picture of mascaline literary history created by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis. Written with crisp humor and irony, her exploration of women's writing. Focusing on a wide range of authors including Lady Mary Wroath, Eliza Hayward, Aphra Behn, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Inchbald, Margaret Cavendish and Jane Austen- illustrates that these women attempted almost every genre of fiction, enriched many, and initiated some of the most important. Often savagely witty, The Female Pen discusses a vast array of fictional forms, including picturesque, moralistic, oriental, domestic, and gothic novels.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814755186
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Had B.G. MacCarthy's criticism been available, Showalter's A Literature of Their Own would have been a very different kind of book...In some ways, contemporary could be ten years ahead if we had started the climb from MacCarthy's groundwork." —Maggie Humm, University of East London Back in print for the first time since the 1940's, this classic work of pre-feminist literary criticism is a challenging and authoritative assessment of women's contributions to English literature. B. G. MacCarthy, widely praised for the originality of her scholarship, challenges the dominant picture of mascaline literary history created by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis. Written with crisp humor and irony, her exploration of women's writing. Focusing on a wide range of authors including Lady Mary Wroath, Eliza Hayward, Aphra Behn, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Inchbald, Margaret Cavendish and Jane Austen- illustrates that these women attempted almost every genre of fiction, enriched many, and initiated some of the most important. Often savagely witty, The Female Pen discusses a vast array of fictional forms, including picturesque, moralistic, oriental, domestic, and gothic novels.
Grandison's Heirs
Author: Gerard A. Barker
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874132700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book traces the progressive influence and changing manifestations of the Grandisonian hero through important late eighteenth-century novels: Frances Sheridan's Sidney Bidulph, Fanny Burney's Evelina, Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives, and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874132700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book traces the progressive influence and changing manifestations of the Grandisonian hero through important late eighteenth-century novels: Frances Sheridan's Sidney Bidulph, Fanny Burney's Evelina, Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives, and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The Reform'd Coquet and Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady
ELIZA HAYWOOD: QUESTIONS IN THE LIFE AND WORKS (HAYWOOD ELIZA, WOMEN WRITERS).
Author: CHRISTINE ELLEN BLOUCH
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
critical bibliography available on Haywood's career.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
critical bibliography available on Haywood's career.
Engendering Legitimacy
Author: Susan Glover
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756041
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction is a study of the intersecting of law, land, property, and gender in the prose fiction of Mary Davys, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, and Jonathan Swift. The law of property in early modern England established relations for men and women that artificially constructed, altered, and ended their connections with the material world, and the land they lived upon. The cultural role of land and law in a changing economy embracing new forms of property became a founding preoccupation around which grew the imaginative prose fiction that would develop into the English novel. Glover contends that questions of political and legal legitimacy raised by England's Revolution of 1688-89 were transposed to the domestic and literary spheres of the early 1700s.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756041
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction is a study of the intersecting of law, land, property, and gender in the prose fiction of Mary Davys, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, and Jonathan Swift. The law of property in early modern England established relations for men and women that artificially constructed, altered, and ended their connections with the material world, and the land they lived upon. The cultural role of land and law in a changing economy embracing new forms of property became a founding preoccupation around which grew the imaginative prose fiction that would develop into the English novel. Glover contends that questions of political and legal legitimacy raised by England's Revolution of 1688-89 were transposed to the domestic and literary spheres of the early 1700s.