THE CURIOUS GENRE: FEMALE INQUIRY IN AMATORY FICTION

In their novels, Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood use female curiosity to exploit new kinds of visual lust and new representations of peeping and to provide an ideology for the publication of sexual novels.

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Published in:Studies in the novel 1998-07, Vol.30 (2), p.194-210
Main Author: BENEDICT, BARBARA M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Appetite
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)
British & Irish literature
Curiosity
Desire
Empiricism
English literature
Females
Fiction
Haywood, Eliza Fowler (1693?-1756)
Ideology
Literary criticism
Love
Manley, Delarivier
Narrators
Novelists
Novels
Passion
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Summary:In their novels, Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood use female curiosity to exploit new kinds of visual lust and new representations of peeping and to provide an ideology for the publication of sexual novels.
ISSN:0039-3827
1934-1512