Seductive Forms Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 To 1740 |
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| Author:
| Ballaster, Ros |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-165651-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $74.25 |
Book Description:
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Seductive Forms is a highly praised account of women's contribution to the `rise of the novel' in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in England. The prose fiction of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood is considered as both providing erotic pleasure for its readers and scoring political points for its partisan (Tory) authors.
Seductive Forms is a highly praised account of women's contribution to the `rise of the novel' in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in England. The prose fiction of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood is considered as both providing erotic pleasure for its readers and scoring political points for its partisan (Tory) authors.