Beyond Spectacle
Juliette Merritt · 2004
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About the book
"Combining close readings of Eliza Haywood's work with twentieth-century debates among feminist and psychoanalytic theorists concerning the visual dynamics of identity and gender formation, Merritt explores insights into how the gaze operates socially, epistemologically, and ontologically in Haywood's writing, ultimately concluding that Haywood's own strategy as an author involved appropriating the spectator position as a means of exercising female power. Beyond the Spectacle will cement Haywood's deservedly prominent place in the canon of eighteenth-century fiction and position her as a writer whose work speaks not only to female agency, but to eighteenth-century writers, gender relations, and power politics as well."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 190
- ISBN
- 9780802035400
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