New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature: Power, Sex, and Text

ISBN-13: 9780367878580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 242 str.

Aleksondra Hultquist; Elizabeth Mathews

Opis

This book revisits heated discussions and adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley’s contributions to 18^th century literature. The methodological approaches incorporate traditional investigations, such as historical research, gender theory, and comparative close readings, as well as recently influential theories l

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Foreword Kirsten T. Saxton

Introduction: Breaking Open the Conversation on Delarivier Manley

Aleksondra Hultquist and Elizabeth J. Mathews

Part I. Power

1. The Adventures of Rivella as Political Secret History

Rachel Carnell

2. The Politics of Servitude: ‘The Husband’s Resentment. In Two Examples’ in Delarivier Manley’s The Power of Love

Earla Wilputte

3. ‘Vengeance, Vows and ‘Heroick Vertue’: Reforming the Revenger in Delarivier Manley’s Alymyna: or, the Arabian Vow

Misty Krueger

4. ‘Through the Black Sea and the Country of Colchis’: A Geocentric Approach to Delarivier Manley’s The Royal Mischief (1696)

Bernadette Andrea

Part II. Sex

5. Interrupting Pleasure: Ideology and Affect in Delarivier Manley’s New Atalantis

Erin M. Keating

6. Manley’s Single Ladies

Jennifer Frangos

7. Manley’s Queer Forms: Repetition, Techno-performativity, and the Body

Kim Simpson

8. From Pleasure to Power: The Passion of Love in ‘The Fair Hypocrite’

Aleksondra Hultquist

Part III. Text

9. Manley’s ‘Sentimental’ Deserted Mistress, Women Writers in Literary History, and The Lost Lover

Victoria Joule

10. Delarivier Manley Understands the Ladies Better than You: The Female Wits, Genre, and Feminocentric Satire Katharine Beutner

11. A Manifesto for a Woman Writer: Letters Writen as Varronian Satire

Chris Mounsey

12. Examined in Manley Style: Epistolary Modes in the Periodical Writings of Delarivier Manley

Jean McBain

13. The Miscellaneous New Atalantis

Nicola Parsons

O autorze

Aleksondra Hultquist is an Associate Investigator at the Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotion, 1100-1800, and a Managing Editor of ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. She has published articles on Eliza Haywood and Aphra Behn and is currently finishing her monograph, The Amatory Mode.

Elizabeth J. Mathews is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. She has reviewed for and published an essay on Aphra Behn’s rhetoric of emotion in ABO and is currently working on a study of the shifting parameters for "bad" writing in genre fiction.