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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.5
EAN: 9781551115245
ISBN: 1551115247
Label: Broadview Press
Manufacturer: Broadview Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2004-02-11
Publisher: Broadview Press
Studio: Broadview Press

This collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the well-known novella Fantomina (1725) along with three other short, highly engaging Haywood works: The Tea-Table (1725), Reflections on the Various Effects of Love (1726), and Love-Letters on All Occasions (1730). In these writings, Haywood arouses the vicarious experience of erotic love while exploring the ethical and social issues evoked by sexual passion.

This Broadview edition includes an introduction that focuses on Haywood's life and career and on the status of prose fiction in the early eighteenth century. Also included are appendices of contextual materials from the period comprising writings by Haywood on female conduct, eighteenth-century pornography (from Venus in the Cloister), and a source text (Nahum Tate's A Present for the Ladies).

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Eliza Haywood, author
Review: Loved her two novesl; Miss Betsy Thoughtless and Love in Excess. I wanted more of her works.
This book of her shorter works is put together very well. She must have been an amazing woman.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: An excellent teaching text!
Review: This edition of Eliza Haywood's novels is excellent for teaching--or simply pleasure reading! The texts are clearly and helpfully annotated with definitions of older words. The editors' introduction is invaluable as a guide to the life and work of this neglected eighteenth-century writer. The title story alone is worth the price of the book. This edition is a worthy companion to Christine Blouch's edition of Haywood's novel Betsy Thoughtless, published in the same series.

Perhaps after a taste of these ribald tales readers will investigate Haywood's lesser-known works, such as the Female Spectator, published in an excellent edition by Oxford University Press. They certainly merit further study and appreciation.

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