Fantomina and Other Works (Broadview Literary Texts) (Paperback)

by Eliza Haywood (Author), Alexander Pettit (Editor), Margaret Case Croskery (Editor), Anna C. Patchias (Editor)

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...a valuable addition to the impressive range of Haywood texts published by Broadview Press... -- Patrick Spedding, Monash University

Fantomina itself is a delightfully outrageous and subversive novel... -- Patrick Spedding, Monash University

Product Description
This collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the well-known novella Fantomina (1725) along with three other short, highly engaging Haywood works: The Tea-Table (1725), Reflections on the Various Effects of Love (1726), and Love-Letters on All Occasions (1730). In these writings, Haywood arouses the vicarious experience of erotic love while exploring the ethical and social issues evoked by sexual passion.

This Broadview edition includes an introduction that focuses on Haywood’s life and career and on the status of prose fiction in the early eighteenth century. Also included are appendices of contextual materials from the period comprising writings by Haywood on female conduct, eighteenth-century pornography (from Venus in the Cloister), and a source text (Nahum Tate’s A Present for the Ladies).

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Broadview Press; 1 edition (February 11, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551115247
• ISBN-13: 978-1551115245
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #118,461 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent teaching text!, September 28, 2004

By	Garrett Brown (Arlington, Virginia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This edition of Eliza Haywood's novels is excellent for teaching--or simply pleasure reading! The texts are clearly and helpfully annotated with definitions of older words. The editors' introduction is invaluable as a guide to the life and work of this neglected eighteenth-century writer. The title story alone is worth the price of the book. This edition is a worthy companion to Christine Blouch's edition of Haywood's novel Betsy Thoughtless, published in the same series.

Perhaps after a taste of these ribald tales readers will investigate Haywood's lesser-known works, such as the Female Spectator, published in an excellent edition by Oxford University Press. They certainly merit further study and appreciation.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Eliza Haywood, author, January 18, 2007

By	Betty Louise Burlap "Betts" (Fort Wayne, IN USA) - See all my reviews

Loved her two novesl; Miss Betsy Thoughtless and Love in Excess. I wanted more of her works.
This book of her shorter works is put together very well. She must have been an amazing woman.