Love in excess, or, The fatal enquiry
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Love in excess, or, The fatal enquiry
（Broadview literary texts）
Broadview Press, c2000
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) was one 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction A Note on the Text Eliza Haywood: A Brief Chronology Love in Excess
- or, The Fatal Enquiry Bookseller's Dedication Part the First Part the Second The Third and Last Part Appendix: Some Eighteenth-Century Responses to Eliza Haywood Anonymous Verses Wrote in the Blank Leaf of Mrs. Haywood's Novel (1722) Richard Savage To Mrs. Eliza Haywood, on Her Novel, called The Rash Resolve (1724) From The Authors of the Town
- A Satire (1725) Anonymous letter from The Ladies Journal (Dublin, 1727) Jonathan Swift Corinna (1728) Alexander Pope From The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus (1729) James Sterling To Mrs. Eliza Haywood on Her Writings (1732) William Rufus Chetwood From A General History of the Stage
- (More Particularlythe Irish Theatre) From its Origin in Greece down to thePresent Time. With the Memoirs of the Principal Performers,that have appeared on the Dublin Stage in the Last Fifty Years(Dublin, 1749) David Erskine Baker From Biographica Dramatica
- or, A Companion to thePlayhouse (1764) Clara Reeve From The Progress of Romance, through Times, Countries,Manners
- with Remarks on the Good and Bad Effects of It,on Them Respectively
- in a Course of EveningConversations, "Evening VII" Select Bibliography
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