Seductive forms : women's amatory fiction from 1684-1740 /

Seductive forms : women's amatory fiction from 1684-1740 / Ros Ballaster.

Historicist and feminist accounts of the 'rise of the novel' have neglected the phenomenon of the professional woman writer in England prior to the advent of the sentimental novel in the 1740s. Seductive Forms explores the means by which the three leading Tory women novelists of the late s...

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Main Author: Ballaster, Rosalind.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Behn, Aphra, > 1640-1689 > Fictional works.
Manley, Delarivier, > -1724 > Fictional works.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, > 1693?-1756 > Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Erotic stories, English > History and criticism.
Fiction > Authorship > Sex differences.
Literary form > History > 18th century.
Literary form > History > 17th century.
Seduction in literature.
Seduction.

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Call Number: PR858.W6 B34 1992
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