Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730 An Anthology

Name: Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730 An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780198711377

ISBN-10: 0198711379

ISBN-13: 9780198711377

Edition: 1996

Authors: Paula R. Backscheider, John J. Richetti

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Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730 gathers together for the first time a representative selection of shorter fiction by the most successful women writers of the period, from Aphra Behn, the first important English female professional writer, to Penelope Aubin and Eliza Haywood, who with Daniel Defoe dominated prose fiction in the 1720s. The texts included were amongst the best-selling titles of their time, and played a key role in the expanding market for narrative in the early eighteenth century. Crucial to the development of the longer novel of manners and morals that emerged in the mid-eighteenth century, these novellas have been neglected by literary historians, but now - with the…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/20/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction


Chronology


The History of the Nun (1689)



The Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians (1705)



Love Intrigues (1713)



The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and His Family (1721)



The British Recluse (1722)



Fantomina (1725)



The Reformed Coquet (1724)



Friendship in Death, selections (1728)



Bibliography