Selections From the Female Spectator

Klappentext After Aphra Behn! Eliza Haywood was the most important English female novelist of the early eighteenth century. She also edited several serial newspapers! the most important of which! the Female Spectator! was the first modern periodical written by a woman and addressed to a female audience. This fully annotated collection of articles selected from the Female Spectator includes romantic and satiric fiction! moral essays! and social commentary! covering the broad range of concerns shared by eighteenth-century middle-class women. Perhaps most compelling to a twentieth-century audience is the evidence of what we might be tempted to call feminist awareness. Zusammenfassung After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early eighteenth century. In the 1740s and 50s Haywood also edited several serial newspapers, the most important being The Female Spectator which appeared every month from April 1744 to May 1746 and was written with a markedly female audience in mind. The first modern periodical both written by a woman and addressed to a female audience, The Female Spectator takes up exciting themes found in Haywood's short fiction.

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• Authors: Eliza Haywood, Haywood Eliza
• Assisted by: Patricia Meyer Spacks (Editor), Patricia Meyer (Edgar Shannon Professor and Chair Spacks (Editor), Spacks Patricia Meyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1999
• EAN: 9780195109214
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510921-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Women Writers in English 1350-1850; Women Writers in English 1350-; Women Writers in English 1350-1850
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary essays, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1700 To C 1800