Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze
Title | Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Haywood |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 41 |
Release | 2022-05-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
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The book was written in 1724, yet the twisted storyline, love story, and a good portion of suspense create everything to hook a contemporary reader. The female protagonist is a woman who uses lies, disguises, and treachery to get what she wants – a man she's in love with. As she first meets him, she pretends to be a prostitute. After this intercourse, she wants to meet him again, but not to reveal her real identity. So she dresses up as four different women and organizes continuous dates with her beloved by making him cheat on her with her.
Fantomina and Other Works
Title | Fantomina and Other Works PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Haywood |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2004-02-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1551115247 |
This collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the well-known novella Fantomina (1725) along with three other short, highly engaging Haywood works: The Tea-Table (1725), Reflections on the Various Effects of Love (1726), and Love-Letters on All Occasions (1730). In these writings, Haywood arouses the vicarious experience of erotic love while exploring the ethical and social issues evoked by sexual passion. This Broadview edition includes an introduction that focuses on Haywood’s life and career and on the status of prose fiction in the early eighteenth century. Also included are appendices of contextual materials from the period comprising writings by Haywood on female conduct, eighteenth-century pornography (from Venus in the Cloister), and a source text (Nahum Tate’s A Present for the Ladies).
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless ...
Title | The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless ... PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Fowler Haywood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1768 |
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Fantomina
Title | Fantomina PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Haywood |
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Pages | 82 |
Release | 2022-01-17 |
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ISBN | 9781804470060 |
Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze is a novella by Eliza Haywood which charts an unnamed female protagonist's pursuit of the charming, shallow Beauplaisir. Dealing with major themes such as identity, class and sexual desire, and first published in 1725, Fantomina subverts the popular 'persecuted maiden' narrative, and reaches a climax which would have shocked its contemporary readership. Moving to London, a young woman - let's call her Fantomina - meets a dashing man at the theatre. After a short, but intense, fling, Beauplaisir grows bored of Fantomina, and leaves her. Outraged that she should be so treated, Fantomina discards her disguise in favour of another, and sets off in hot pursuit of her victim, and a game of cat and mouse begins. This edition features an introduction by Dr Sarah R. Creel, Bethany E. Qualls and Dr Anna K. Sagal of the International Eliza Haywood Society.
The Tea Table: Or, a Conversation Between Some Polite Persons of Both Sexes at a Lady's Visiting Day, Etc
Title | The Tea Table: Or, a Conversation Between Some Polite Persons of Both Sexes at a Lady's Visiting Day, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Fowler Haywood |
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Pages | 60 |
Release | 1725 |
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Anti-Pamela and Shamela
Title | Anti-Pamela and Shamela PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Haywood |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2004-01-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770480714 |
Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding’s An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson’s representations of work, virtue, and gender, while also questioning the generic expectations of the novel that Pamela establishes, and it provides a vivid portrayal of the material realities of life for a woman in eighteenth-century London. Fielding’s Shamela punctures both the figure Richardson established for himself as an author and Pamela’s preoccupation with virtue. This Broadview edition also includes a rich selection of historical materials, including writings from the period on sexuality, women’s work, Pamela and the print trade, and education and conduct.
Anti-Pamela: or, Feign'd Innocence detected; in a series of Syrena's adventures, etc. [A skit on Samuel Richardson's “Pamela.” By Eliza Haywood?]
Title | Anti-Pamela: or, Feign'd Innocence detected; in a series of Syrena's adventures, etc. [A skit on Samuel Richardson's “Pamela.” By Eliza Haywood?] PDF eBook |
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Pages | 312 |
Release | 1741 |
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