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New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature: Power, Sex, and Text book cover

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New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature Power, Sex, and Text

Edited By Aleksondra Hultquist, Elizabeth Mathews Copyright 2017
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley’s multifaceted contributions to eighteenth-century literature, and demonstrates the wide range of thinking about her literary production and significance. While contributors reconsider some well-known texts through her generic intertextuality or... Read more

Foreword Kirsten T. Saxton



Introduction: Breaking Open the Conversation on Delarivier Manley



Aleksondra Hultquist and Elizabeth J. Mathews



Part I. Power



1. The Adventures of Rivella as Political Secret History



Rachel Carnell



2. The Politics of Servitude: ‘The Husband’s Resentment. In Two Examples’ in Delarivier Manley’s The Power of Love



Earla Wilputte



3. ‘Vengeance, Vows and ‘Heroick Vertue’: Reforming the Revenger in Delarivier Manley’s Alymyna: or, the Arabian Vow



Misty Krueger



4. ‘Through the Black Sea and the Country of Colchis’: A Geocentric Approach to Delarivier Manley’s The Royal Mischief (1696)



Bernadette Andrea



Part II. Sex



5. Interrupting Pleasure: Ideology and Affect in Delarivier Manley’s New Atalantis



Erin M. Keating



6. Manley’s Single Ladies



Jennifer Frangos



7. Manley’s Queer Forms: Repetition, Techno-performativity, and the Body



Kim Simpson



8. From Pleasure to Power: The Passion of Love in ‘The Fair Hypocrite’



Aleksondra Hultquist



Part III. Text



9. Manley’s ‘Sentimental’ Deserted Mistress, Women Writers in Literary History, and The Lost Lover



Victoria Joule



10. Delarivier Manley Understands the Ladies Better than You: The Female Wits, Genre, and Feminocentric Satire Katharine Beutner



11. A Manifesto for a Woman Writer: Letters Writen as Varronian Satire



Chris Mounsey



12. Examined in Manley Style: Epistolary Modes in the Periodical Writings of Delarivier Manley



Jean McBain



13. The Miscellaneous New Atalantis



Nicola Parsons

Biography

Aleksondra Hultquist is an Associate Investigator at the Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotion, 1100-1800, and a Managing Editor of ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. She has published articles on Eliza Haywood and Aphra Behn and is currently finishing her monograph, The Amatory Mode.



Elizabeth J. Mathews is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. She has reviewed for and published an essay on Aphra Behn’s rhetoric of emotion in ABO and is currently working on a study of the shifting parameters for "bad" writing in genre fiction.

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