Love in Excess (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Editions)

Love in Excess (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Editions)

by David Oakleaf (Editor), David Oakleaf (Editor), Eliza Haywood (Author)

Synopsis

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) was on of the most successful writers of her time; indeed, the two most popular English novels in the early eighteenth-century were Robinson Crusoe and Haywood's first novel, Love in Excess. As this edition enables modern readers to discover, its enormous success is easy to understand. Love in Excess is a well crafted novel in which the claims of love and ambition are pursued through multiple storylines until the heroine engineers a melodramatic conclusion. Haywood's frankness about female sexuality may explain the later neglect of Love in Excess. (In contrast, her accomplished domestic novel, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, has remained available.) Love in Excess and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum. For the second Broadview edition, the appendix of eighteenth-century responses to Haywood has been considerably expanded.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 291
Edition: 2
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 15 Jun 2000

ISBN 10: 1551113678
ISBN 13: 9781551113678

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This readable edition of Haywood's blockbuster novel (with Oakleaf's lively, highly informed introduction and clear judicious textual notes) 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 (with Oakleaf's lively, highly informed introduction and clear judicious textual notes) 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 (with Oakleaf's lively, highly informed introduction and clear judicious textual notes) 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 (with Oakleaf's lively, highly informed introduction and clear judicious textual notes) is an important addition to our understanding of the history of the English novel. -- Paula Backscheider, Auburn University

Author Bio
Eliza Haywood was an English novelist, poet, and actress. John Richetti is the A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of The Cambridge History of English Literature: 1660-1780 and the author of many books, including The Life of Daniel Defoe.