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The most prolific woman writer of eighteenth century, Eliza (1693-1756?) was a key player in history of English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett.Also one of Augustan England's most popular authors, came to fame in 1719 with publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition to writing fiction, she was a playwright, translator, bookseller, actress, theater critic, and editor of The Female Spectator, first English periodical written by women for women. Though tremendously popular, her novels and plays from 1720s and 30s scandalized reading public with explicit portrayals of female sexuality and led others to call her the Great Arbitress of Passion.Essays in this collection explore themes such as connections between Haywood's early and late work, her experiments with form of novel, her involvement in party politics, her use of myth and plot devices, and her intense interest in imbalance of power between men and women. Distinguished scholars such as Paula Backschieder, Felicity Nussbaum, and John Richetti approach from a number of theoretical and topical positions, leading way in a crucial reexamination of her work. The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood examines formal and ideological complexities of her prose and demonstrates how Haywood's texts deft traditional schematization.
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