"This readable edition of Haywood's blockbuster novel is an important addition to our understanding of the history of the English novel." -- Paula Backscheider, Auburn University
"This readable edition of Haywood's blockbuster novel is an important addition to our understanding of the history of the English novel." -- Paula Bac...
The most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, controversial, and sometimes disturbing, Haywood s short novels The Masqueraders and The Surprize are valuable sources for the study of eighteenth-century gender and identity, the social history of masquerade, the dangers of courtship and seduction, and conceptions of elite and popular cultures.
Despite their common theme of masquerade and seduction, the two short novels are a study in contrasts. The Masqueraders...
The most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, ...
The most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, controversial, and sometimes disturbing, Haywood s short novels The Masqueraders and The Surprize are valuable sources for the study of eighteenth-century gender and identity, the social history of masquerade, the dangers of courtship and seduction, and conceptions of elite and popular cultures.
Despite their common theme of masquerade and seduction, the two short novels are a study in contrasts. The Masqueraders...
The most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, ...
