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- Title
Having Text: Desire and Language in Haywood's Love in Excess and The Distressed Orphan.
- Authors
Harrow, Sharon
- Abstract
A literary criticism is presented of the 18th-century novels "Love in Excess" and "The Distressed Orphan; or, Love in a Mad-House" by Eliza Haywood. The novels are analyzed in the context of her philosophical poems to show Haywood's version of seduction narratives and the master narrative of patriarchy. Haywood's use of the theme of confinement to emphasize the power of language as a vehicle for female expression of desire is discussed.
- Subjects
CRITICISM; LOVE in Excess (Book); DISTRESSED Orphan: Or Love in a Mad-House, The (Book); HAYWOOD, Eliza Fowler, ca. 1693-1756; IMPRISONMENT in literature; SEDUCTION in literature; DESIRE in literature
- Publication
Eighteenth Century Fiction, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 2, p279
- ISSN
0840-6286
- Publication type
Literary Criticism