Eliza Haywood and Empire: Exposing Empire in the Female Spectator
In my presentation on Dr. Catherine Ingrassia's Eliza Haywood and Empire panel today at 4:50 EST, I will be discussing my research using the digital...
Constructing and Performing Masculinity in the Novels of Richardson, Radcliffe and Austen
The question of how the construction or performance of masculinity changes throughout the long eighteenth century has been widely debated in field of literary/cultural studies,...
“Almost Stunned at the Sound of my Own Voice”: Internal/External Exploration and Female Penetration in “Winkfield’s” The Female American
The Female American prefigures, serving as a kind of “oracle” or found hermit’s manuscript for the “female gothic” novel within the context of trans-Atlantic, long eighteenth-century...
One Man Giveth, Another Taketh Away: Pet Ownership, Romantic Courtship, and Financial Hardship in Haywood’s Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751) and Burney’s Camilla (1796)
“All commerce of this kind between men and women is like that of the Boys and Frogs in L’Estrange’s Fable.—‘Tis play to you, but ‘tis...
Privacy, Letters, and Constructing a (Fictional) Female Self in the History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Within the first 70 pages of Eliza Haywood’s 1751 novel The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, vol. 2 (pp. 181-251), appear 13 letters: one to Mr. Trueworth...