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- Title
Between Novels and Songs: Eliza Haywood's French Romance.
- Authors
Sanders, Scott M.
- Abstract
This essay investigates Haywood's insertion of songs into her fictional works. In it, I argue that Haywood's use of songs evolves over time from a rhetorical, narratological function to a dramatic, performative function. Haywood first adapts, from her translation of French romances, the rhetorical and narratological strategies that are present in French literary works. Songs inserted into prose fiction present the reader with an aphoristic moment that offers the reader a lyrical lesson. With Haywood's mid-century domestic novel, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless , she continues to experiment with the aphoristic function of songs and includes multi-medial references to ballad tunes. In so doing, she blends the aesthetic strategies of French romance with the dramatic, performative strategies of ballad operas. These inserted songs, then, offer the reader an interpretive lens through which to analyze The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless , a reading which has Jacobite undertones.
- Subjects
NARRATOLOGY; HISTORY of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, The (Book); LITERARY theory; MEDIEVAL romance literature; FRENCH romance fiction
- Publication
Studies in the Novel, 2022, Vol 54, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
0039-3827
- Publication type
Article