Dreaming the Rebellious Dream: Reconstruction of the Happy Marriage in Eliza Haywood’s The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
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Eliza Haywood is one of the most important, influential women writers in the eighteenth century who made contribution to the development of the British novel. Haywood is well known for her descriptions of unconventional gender roles in which female characters explicitly pursue their physical desire and unhappy marriage in which wives suffer from unfair marital status and their husbands’ tyrannical behaviors. These unconventional descriptions caused Haywood’s valuable works to be underestimated and ignored by critics until 1970s. In this paper I explore these features by focusing on her later novel, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy which was written in her “moral” period. By doing so, I offer an extended examination of The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, a work that has suffered from critical neglect. Furthermore, the examination of these subversive characteristics in this novel corrects what I argue is a mistaken bifurcation of Haywood’s novel output into two periods: amatory and “moral.” By demonstrating that Haywood offers her subversive descriptions, namely, the agency of female sexuality and unhappy marriage in the novel written in her “moral,” conservative period, I propose that Haywood’s contribution can be best understood by viewing her fictional production as a continuum that never wavers from offering a challenge to patriarchal ideology and practice. Most importantly, I show that the novel written in conservative period is much more subversive in terms of her reconstruction of the happy marriage: in her ideal view of marriage, there are mutual affection and equality between a husband and a wife.
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Eliza Haywood is one of the most important, influential women writers in the eighteenth century who made contribution to the development of the British novel. Haywood is well known for her descriptions of unconventional gender roles in which female characters explicitly pursue their physical desire and unhappy marriage in which wives suffer from unfair marital status and their husbands’ tyrannical behaviors. These unconventional descriptions caused Haywood’s valuable works to be underestimated and ignored by critics until 1970s. In this paper I explore these features by focusing on her later novel, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy which was written in her “moral” period. By doing so, I offer an extended examination of The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, a work that has suffered from critical neglect. Furthermore, the examination of these subversive characteristics in this novel corrects what I argue is a mistaken bifurcation of Haywood’s novel output into two periods: amatory and “moral.” By demonstrating that Haywood offers her subversive descriptions, namely, the agency of female sexuality and unhappy marriage in the novel written in her “moral,” conservative period, I propose that Haywood’s contribution can be best understood by viewing her fictional production as a continuum that never wavers from offering a challenge to patriarchal ideology and practice. Most importantly, I show that the novel written in conservative period is much more subversive in terms of her reconstruction of the happy marriage: in her ideal view of marriage, there are mutual affection and equality between a husband and a wife.
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