Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740 by Ros Ballaster

Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740

Ros Ballaster

240 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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. Seductive Forms explores the means by which the three...

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