Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood

Klappentext This exciting edition gathers together for the first time a sampling of Haywood's writings generous enough to represent the full range of her fiction and drama and includes material from each decade of her long writing life. All texts come back into print here and here alone. The collection features six fictions! including both racy early work and later experimental prose fiction! two plays! and some powerful political writing. Zusammenfassung This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing she produced, and the ways she treated important themes and issues.

Product details

• Authors: Eliza Haywood
• Assisted by: Paula R. Backscheider (Editor), Paula R. (Pepperell Eminent Scholar in English Backscheider (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1998
• EAN: 9780195108460
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510846-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Women Writers in English 1350-1850; Women Writers in English 1350-1850
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies