Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood

Zusatztext Backscheider's volume will make it possible to include Haywood as a significant presence in both survey courses and graduate seminars 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. 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, Eliza Fowler Haywood, Haywood Eliza
• Assisted by: Paula R. Backscheider (Editor), Backscheider Paula R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1998
• EAN: 9780195108477
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510847-7
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Women Writers in English 1350-1850; Women Writers in English 1350-1850
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; English, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form