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- Title
The curious genre: Female inquiry in amatory fiction.
- Authors
Benedict, Barbara M.
- Abstract
Considers the impact that the women authors Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood had on eighteenth century English culture. Female curiosity viewed as the destruction of a spiritual definition of man's nature; Sexual novels of these writers as a form of curiosity; Female narrators of their novels endowed with a scientific posture of objective analysis; Why print was the only public venue for women's questions.
- Subjects
BRITISH women authors; BEHN, Aphra, 1640-1689; MANLEY, Delarivier; HAYWOOD, Eliza Fowler, ca. 1693-1756; EIGHTEENTH century; CRITICISM
- Publication
Studies in the Novel, 1998, Vol 30, Issue 2, p194
- ISSN
0039-3827
- Publication type
Literary Criticism