LEADER 04073nam 2200661 450 001 9910456213603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-7137-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442671379 035 $a(CKB)2430000000000981 035 $a(EBL)3254744 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000375447 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282489 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000375447 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10488599 035 $a(PQKB)10738184 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671234 035 $a(DE-B1597)464218 035 $a(OCoLC)944178408 035 $a(OCoLC)999362156 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442671379 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671234 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256952 035 $a(OCoLC)958562561 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000000981 100 $a20160922h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond spectacle $eEliza Haywood's female spectators /$fJuliette Merritt 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-3540-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction Gazing in the Eighteenth Century: Eliza Haywood's Specular Negotiations -- $tChapter One. An Excess of Spectacle: The Failure of Female Curiosity in Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry -- $tChapter Two. Peepers, Picts, and Female Masquerade: Performances of the Female Gaze in Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze -- $tChapter Three. From Image to Text: The Discourse of Abandonment and Textual Agency in The British Recluse; or, The Secret History of Cleomira, Supposed Dead -- $tChapter Four. The Spectatorial Text: Spying, Writing, Authority in The Invisible Spy and Bath Intrigues -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aTheories of sight and spectatorship captivated many writers and philosophers of the eighteenth century and, in turn, helped to define both sexual politics and gender identity. Eliza Haywood was thoroughly engaged in the social, philosophical, and political issues of her time, and she wrote prolifically about them, producing over seventy-five works of literature ? plays, novels, and pamphlets ? during her lifetime. Examining a number of works from this prodigious canon, Juliette Merritt focuses on Haywood's consideration of the myriad issues surrounding sight and seeing and argues that Haywood explored strategies to undermine the conventional male spectator/female spectacle structure of looking.Combining close readings of 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 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. 606 $aGaze in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGaze in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. 676 $a823/.5 700 $aMerritt$b Juliette$01045877 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456213603321 996 $aBeyond spectacle$92472462 997 $aUNINA