“Queering” Eliza Haywood

Scholars consistently read the texts of Eliza Haywood through a culturally defined heteronormative lens. Yet Haywood’s texts in multiple genres throughout the course of her career structurally and descriptively present same-sex relationships of varying degrees of intimacy. This essay explores what h...

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Published in:Journal for early modern cultural studies 2014-10, Vol.14 (4), p.9-24
Main Author: Ingrassia, Catherine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliographic literature
Cultural studies
ESSAYS
Fiction
Gender
Haywood, Eliza Fowler (1693?-1756)
Intimacy
Lesbianism
Narratives
Normativity
Novels
Queer culture
Reading
Women
Writers
Writing
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Summary:Scholars consistently read the texts of Eliza Haywood through a culturally defined heteronormative lens. Yet Haywood’s texts in multiple genres throughout the course of her career structurally and descriptively present same-sex relationships of varying degrees of intimacy. This essay explores what happens when we disrupt our methods for interpreting Haywood and complicate our readings by recognizing her creation of non-normative possibilities for intimacy, gender formation, and narrative structures across the span of her career.
ISSN:1531-0485
1553-3786
1553-3786
DOI:10.1353/jem.2014.0047