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	Amatory Fiction
		Amatory fiction is a formulaic genre which always depicted an innocent, trusting woman who was deceived by a self-serving, lustful man. For the women of amatory fiction, love typically ends in misery.
		Authors of amatory fictions often detailed extramarital affairs, which conveniently allowed them to avoid the complications of property, which was a strong motivation for marriage when amatory fiction was popular.
		Some works of amatory fiction were amoral, and allowed their characters to commit scandalous love affairs without being "punished" based on themes of Christian, social, legal or other forms of poetic justice.
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	Amatory fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amatory fiction is a genre of British literature popular during the late 17th century and 18th century.
		Narrowly defined, amatory fiction is a formulaic genre which typically depicts an innocent, trusting woman who is deceived by a self-serving, lustful man. For the women of amatory fiction, love typically ends in misery.
		Although amatory fiction has traditionally been excluded from "rise of the novel" narratives, recent scholarship indicates that these works are not merely precursors to the novel, but novels in their own right.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amatory_fiction (284 words)

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		Amatory fiction has also been described as a “seduction narrative” (12), but its undertones were political.
		These women writing amatory fiction present “political allegoriesbut[t]hey attempt to articulate sexual and political party interest simultaneously, with reference both to the struggle for a specifically female authority in sexual and party political representation and to the more general struggle to resolve ethical and epistemological crises in the social order through narrative form” (16).
		Amatory fiction was a new phenomenon which began in the late 1600’s when Aphra Behn published a work of fiction that was both “sexually explicit and outspokenly partisan inpolitics” (Ballaster 1).
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	Amatory fiction
		As its name implies, amatory fiction is preoccupied with sexual love and romance.
		Historicist and feminist accounts of the "rise of the novel" have neglected the phenomenon of the professional woman writer in England prior to the advent of the sentimental novel in the 1740s.
		Seduction is employed in these fictions as a metaphor for both novelistic production (the seduction of the reader by the writer) and party political machination (the seduction of the public by the politician).
	www.jahsonic.com /AmatoryFiction.html (486 words)

	Review: Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture
		For her, erotica, unlike amatory fiction, works stylistically by 'describ[ing] material about sexual pleasure which depicted sex, bodies and desire through illusions of concealment and distance: bodies were represented through metaphor and suggestion, and depictions of sexual activity were characterized by deferral and silence' (author's italics, p.
		Haywood's amatory fiction often displaces desire and passion onto language, though, unlike erotica, it leaves the desiring heroines (and readers?) unfulfilled.
		Harvey is right to point out the important difference in tone between the two genres, and she usefully locates erotica at the juncture between pornography and amatory fiction: 'Erotica shared with pornography an interest in sex, and shared with amatory fiction a desire to hide it from the reader.
	www.history.ac.uk /reviews/paper/harrow.html (2567 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist.
		Austen introduced a different style of writing—the comedy of manners, but her novels often are not funny, bur are scathing critiques of the restrictive, rural culture of the early nineteenth century.
		Pride and Prejudice, is her happiest, and has been blueprint for much subsequent romantic fiction; her other novels feature heroines for whom the modern reader has little sympathy, and may dislike.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Novel.html (1721 words)

	caelica83
		Fiction itself, though, usually -- if not always -- has some basis in actual experience, whether it is the author's or someone else's.
		And since Astrophil and Stella remains one of the few "model" amatory poetic sequences by which all others are judged, some critics and readers may conclude that Greville's Caelica should not be classified with the amatory sonnet sequence genre.
		The overall structure of Caelica as a fiction, or a cohesive narrative that interweaves related themes and events into a story (which, incidentally, does not have to be entirely untrue), is condensed into this extensive confessional poem.
	www.msu.edu /~dondiego/articles.htm (3308 words)

	Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The English word "novel" derives from the Italian word novella, meaning "a tale, a piece of news." The Novel is longer (at least 40,000 words) and more complex than either the short story or the novella, and is not bound by the structural and metrical restrictions of plays or poetry.
		The first "Romantic fiction" usually was fantastic—set in a mythical, ancient time, and had shallow, two-dimensional characters.
		Her best known novel, Pride and Prejudice (1811), is her happiest, and has been a blueprint for much subsequent romantic fiction; her other novels feature heroines for whom the modern reader has little sympathy, and may dislike.
	novel.iqnaut.net (2172 words)

	SHARP 2006 - Wednesday 15.30-15.00 - Abstracts papers
		A historical understanding of the phony translation in British amatory fiction of the late-17th and 18th centuries also demands that we examine similar topoi in other forms of fiction from the same period.
		When we place amatory fictionsâ insistence on their own status as translations in a wider frame that includes more mainstream novels' insistence on their status as editions, our question necessarily expands.
		Now we must ask not only why writers of the particular genre of amatory fiction chose to be seen as translators rather than authors, but why early writers of fiction more broadly defined so often chose to be identified not as originators of their own stories, but rather as transmitters or organizers of received tales.
	www.kb.nl /hkc/congressen/sharp2006/info/abstracts04-en.html (5729 words)

	Texts, Lies and the Marketplace: Eliza Haywood and the Literary Marketplace at Mid-Century
		Once amatory fiction lost its popularity, Haywood in a sense re-invented herself as not just as a write and but as a member of the print trade in control of marketing and selling her own texts and potentially those of others.
		Her periodicals contain vast amounts of fiction, her political writings use language and situations from amatory fiction, and her fiction often details 'political' situations.
		Haywood combines the stylistics of her earlier amatory fiction and with specific descriptions of the Pretender's journeys on the Continent that echo news accounts.
	www.has.vcu.edu /eng/symp/ing_txt.htm (3264 words)

	Novel
		A novel is a long or extended work of fiction written in prose, usually in the form of a story.
		Romantic fiction tends to be fantastic, to be set in a mythical ancient time, and to have shallower characters than novels.
		These works are now usually categorized under the term "amatory fiction." Eliza Haywood was perhaps the most notorious writer of these types of novels, with works as Love in Excess (English, 1719).
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/n/no/novel.html (1151 words)

	List of literary movements - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Romantic fiction written in the 17th century and 18th century, primarily written by and for women.
		Fiction in which Romantic ideals are combined with an interest in the supernatural and in violence.
		Distinct from European Romanticism, the American form emerged somewhat later, was based more in fiction than in poetry, and incorporated a (sometimes almost suffocating) awareness of history, particularly the darkest aspects of American history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Literary_movement (715 words)

	Rewriting the rise of the novel Novel: A Forum on Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Warner and Siskin do however share interests, the most important of which is an abiding sense of the inadequacy of the received rise of the novel narrative and its failure to demonstrate exactly how novels "rose" in terms of both production and consumption.
		Above all, he does a really splendid job of deconstructing realism as the commonsense foundation of the novel, and further, he succeeds in tracing a line of the fiction of amatory intrigue.
		At the same time, however, he has nothing to say of any other Defoe, which leads one to think that accounts of the genesis or development or rise of the novel are inevitably exercises in the mathematics of curve fitting: out of a few select examples, a narrative is extrapolated.
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	Haywood, Injur'd Husband, Lasselia
		Jane Austen was heralded as the mother of women’s fiction, a lone female voice breaking into the masculine world of letters to introduce the illustrious line of nineteenth-century female authors who followed her.
		In light of the significance of Haywood’s fiction for the development of the novel, the University Press of Kentucky has done a great service by making two of her early works available to general readers.
		She has recently been granted a Fulbright fellowship to pursue her research on women's sentimental fiction and tropical fever at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
	www.jasna.org /bookrev/br182p20.html (793 words)

	Novel (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist.
		The novel genre sometimes is contrasted with the Romance genre—the original concept is similar, hence, the French word for "novel" is "roman".
		The first "Romantic fiction" usually was fantastic—set in a mythical, ancient time, and had shallow, two-dimensional characters; Don Quixote (1605, 1615), by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547—1616), may be read as parody of popular chivalric romance.
	novel.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (2072 words)

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		Analyzes women's situations from liberal, neo-Marxist, socialist, and feminist perspectives, arguing that the ideology of male supremacy was preserved even in the face of women's changing legal status.
		Like Nancy Armstrong's Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (1987), Straub's book applies Foucault's theories to the analysis of sexual politics in the eighteenth century.
		Anne Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and later women writers are discussed in terms of the connection between Gothic fiction and females as writers and readers.
	www.wright.edu /~martin.maner/18list.doc (2628 words)

	Cardiff Corvey Articles, VII.3: A. H. STEVENS. Tales of Other Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		] Historical fiction does not begin with Scott, she argues, but the historical novel of the Romantic period is notably different from and discontinuous with the historical fiction of the seventeenth century.
		In repackaging the contents of historiography in fictional form, novelists aimed for an audience likely to be composed of more women, older children, and middle-rank readers, the patrons of the circulating libraries, than the more aristocratic male readers of antiquarian and specialised historical publications.
		Leicester’s death may be merely a ‘fiction’: ‘In fine, having bribed the servants employed in blazoning this pompous fiction, the family were indubitably assured, the body buried under the name Lord Leicester, was one procured for the purpose’ (p.
	www.cf.ac.uk /encap/corvey/articles/cc07_n03.html (6825 words)

	Eliza Haywood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Haywood, Delarivier Manley and Aphra Behn were known as the Fair Triumvirate of Wit and are considered the most prominent writers of amatory fiction.
		Eliza Haywood’s prolific fiction develops from titillating romance novels and amatory fiction during the early 1720s to works focused more on “women’s rights and position” (Schofield, Haywood 63) in the later 1720s into the 1730s.
		Haywood is notable as a transgressive, outspoken writer of amatory fiction, plays, romance and novels which were not common or respected of women of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eliza_Haywood (2341 words)

	Polly S. Fields, Ph.D.
		Assays her ideal hero to be "the perfect prig." Compares her fictional technique to that of Richardson and Rowe.
		Discusses Davys as a contributor to the genre of the novel and her innovations in epistolary fiction.
		Studies Davys's works for their fictional representation of certain topics, including the masculine ideal, the relationship between men and women, and the contemporary climate in England.
	www.lssu.edu /faculty/pfields/davys.php (3083 words)

	nameplate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Topics include print culture and the works of Mary, Lady Chudleigh; the politics of early amatory fiction; Susanna Centlivre's use of plot; novels by women between 1760 and 1788; and the connection between gender and narrative form in the criminal biographies of the 1770s.
		THE FICTION OF HORTENSE CALISHER, Kathleen Snodgrass.The author of eleven novels, six collections of short stories and novellas, and two memoirs, Hortense Calisher has been celebrated as a "writer's writer." In this volume, the first book-length study of Calisher's work, the author demonstrates a thematic coherence despite the wide range of subject matter.
		This is the first collection to focus on Edith Whatnot and questions of biography, autobiography, and aesthetics, and it explores her fiction and nonfiction with particular attention to gender, race, and class.
	www.english.udel.edu /udpress/catalog_etoh.html (4213 words)

	Women's fiction
		Related: amatory fiction - bodice ripper - "chick lit" - domestic fiction - romantic love - romance novel - love story - women - fiction - literature - escapist fiction - genre - genre fiction - popular fiction - women's magazines
		Serious consideration of bestselling women's fiction which falls outside the area of formula fiction is still quite minimal despite that fact that women's fiction in all its many forms, in addition to being a multi-million dollar international business, reaches an enormous number of women throughout the western world.
		Women's fiction is a wide-ranging literary genre that includes various types of novels that generally appeal more to women than men.
	www.jahsonic.com /WomensFiction.html (535 words)

	Novel18c
		Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.
		Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivelesque in 18th-century Culture and Fiction.
		Erickson, Robert A. Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in 18c Fiction (Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne).
	courses.wcupa.edu /wanko/Novel18c.htm (791 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.5.09
		Boyd proposes "a reading of the Amores as a sort of plotted narrative with beginning, middle, and end, and with the embedding of one story within another [T]he dominant plot of the Amores is the poet's conversion to elegy" (142).
		Thus "Ovid the poet is not interested in having us believe in "Corinna" or even in her lover; but he does want to persuade us of the centrality of the poet and the poetry to the narrative of the Amores" (142).
		The literary intent of the Ovid-the-narrator-poet overcomes and inevitably undercuts the amatory one of Ovid-the-lover, because the literary plot is the dominant story of the Amores.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/98.5.09.html (1885 words)

	Teaching Pamphlet #7 - Thorn Article
		Representations of these regions and cultures abound in the high and low fiction of the era as well as in travel accounts and works of scholarly works on architecture, religion, gardening, and government.
		Still, as a course that asks students to think about factuality and fictionality, the "truths" of history and of fiction, and their own and the texts' inductive and deductive processes, the course is well-suited to serve as an honors sequence or a senior seminar for English majors.
		So, too, reading contemporary Arabic fiction in translation underlines the ambition of the class to open doors that stay open beyond the duration of the course, as we test our abilities to read works that confound our notions of "novels" without having recourse to presumptions of exoticism that occlude as much as they reveal.
	asecs.press.jhu.edu /thorn.html (3222 words)

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