Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood
- Editor: Tiffany Potter
- Pages: 250
- Published: 2020
- ISBN: 9781603294249 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 9781603294621 (Hardcover)
“The pedagogical range and resourcefulness of this volume are impressive. Any teacher of Haywood will benefit from a thorough engagement with the material presented.”
—David Oakleaf, University of Calgary
During her long and varied career, Eliza Haywood acted onstage, worked as a publisher and bookseller, and wrote prolifically in many genres, from novels of seduction to essays in periodicals. Her works illuminate the private emotional lives of people in eighteenth-century England, invite readers to consider how women in that culture defined themselves and criticized oppression, and help us better understand the social debates of the period.
This volume addresses a broad range of Haywood’s works, providing literary and sociopolitical context from writings by Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, and others, and from contemporary documents such as advice manuals and court records. The first section, “Materials,” identifies high-quality editions, reliable biographical sources, and useful background information. The second section, “Approaches,” suggests ways to help students engage with Haywood’s work, gain a nuanced understanding of the time period, work with primary documents, and participate in digital humanities projects.
Preface (ix)
PART ONE: MATERIALS
Texts for Teaching (3)
Survey and Classroom Contexts (12)
Chronology of Haywood’s Publications (15)
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Introduction (21)
Backgrounds
Haywood and Her Readers: Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and the Literary Marketplace (28)
Haywood’s Works: Availability, Editing, and Issues of Bibliography (36)
Culture and Contexts
Avoiding Oroonoko Syndrome: Teaching Haywood and Fantomina in Context (44)
Haywood and Problems of Social Class (50)
Teaching the Theatrical Thirties: Haywood, Fielding, and Stage Conversations (56)
Haywood and “Amatory Fiction” (63)
Teasing Out Desire: Haywood, the Novel, and the Early Women Writers Course (73)
Teaching Haywood to a Diverse Student Audience: Negotiating Narrative Structure and Gender, Family, and Legal Structure (80)
Haywood and the Rise of Modern Popular Culture (88)
Individual Works
Professing the Ineffable: Love in Excess, Affect Theory, and the Matter of Romance (96)
Teaching beyond the Heteronormative: Fantomina and Queering Haywood (103)
Performativity and the Rack of Nature: Identity in Fantomina and The Masqueraders (110)
Fantomina and Betsy Thoughtless: Repetition with Difference (118)
Limits of the Letter in Haywood, Richardson, and Fielding: Teaching Anti-Pamela with Pamela and Shamela (127)
“Syrena Was a Girl”: Teaching Anti-Pamela as Protest Literature through Role-Playing (134)
Reforming the Reformation Narrative: Demythologizing Haywood and the Rise of the Novel through Betsy Thoughtless (141)
“Manfully Resolved”: Haywood’s Masculinities and Betsy Thoughtless in the Eighteenth-Century Fiction Course (148)
Eovaai and the Fiction of Fantasy in Eighteenth-Century England (155)
Literary Communities: The Tea-Table and the Hillarian Circle (162)
A Spectator View: Narratives of Sex, Consent, and Rape in The Female Spectator and Love in Excess (169)
Women, Sex, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Popular Media: The Invisible Spy and the Elizabeth Canning Case (177)
Digital Approaches
An Overview of Haywood’s Digital Humanity (185)
Nonfatal Inquiry: Love in Excess, Print, and the Internet Age (196)
Social Reading Practices: Teaching The Female Spectator with Twenty-First-Century Feminocentric Digital Periodicals (204)
Notes on Contributors (213)
Survey Participants (217)
Works Cited (219)
