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Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740
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Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740 Hardcover - 1992

by Ros Ballaster


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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
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries challenged and reworked both contemporary gender ideologies and generic convention. The seduction plot provided Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood with a vehicle for dramatizing their own appropriation of the "masculine" power of
fiction-making. Seduction is employed in these fictions as a metaphor for both novelistic production (the seduction of the reader by the writer) and party political machination (the seduction of the public by the politician). The book also explores the debts early prose fiction owes to French
seventeenth-century models of fiction-writing and argues that Behn, Manley, and Haywood succeeded in producing a distinctively "English" and female "form" for an amatory novel.

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  • Title Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740
  • Author Ros Ballaster
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 1992-08
  • ISBN 9780198112440 / 0198112440
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.81 x 5.69 x 0.79 in (22.38 x 14.45 x 2.01 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects English fiction - Women authors - History, Erotic stories, English - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91043583
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.085
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