On “Queering Eliza Haywood,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (2020) By Catherine Ingrassia

In the 2020 Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies article “Queering Eliza Haywood,” Catherine Ingrassia mentions Kathryn King’s “generative biography” which reads “through a culturally defined heteronormative lens”–a paradigm that limits the horizon of possibilities with which scholars read her work” (10). Ingrassia argues that “over the last two decades,” Haywood critics have “retreated from” “implications” of “sapphic relationships” in Haywood’s works; this article will caution/help me not to do that in my upcoming mini-edition of The Female Spectator.