Envisioning a History of Women: Female Friendship and a Community of Women in Haywood’s Early Fiction
0
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This essay has selected two works that were produced before Haywood’s disrepute began to be circulated, and looks at how they portray meaningful relationships between women by framing individual, familiar stories of female victimization in a creative way. Drawing on the narrative condition in these texts of the absence of the father and the dominance of women, it examines how Haywood searches possibilities of women’s history through the portrayal of female friendship and a community of women. The British Recluse envisions the possibility of female alliance and autonomy in the horizontal relationships between the heroines and their choice of companionship and single life. If Cleomira is placed in a position to relate her history as a warning to Belinda, Belinda, by choosing to join Cleomira’s retirement, elevates an individual act into a collective one. On the other hand, “Fantomina” locates a community of women in the series of identities the heroine assumes in the course of the story. From a prostitute to an aristocratic Incognita, the heroine’s experience of living as different characters offers a glimpse of other women’s lives and creates a psychological alliance. “Fantomina” locates a possibility of female genealogy in the survival of three generations of women. By portraying female friendship and a community of women, Haywood not only redefines women’s relationships beyond nature and biology and as social and educational, but also envisions a possibility of female genealogy.
Abstract
This essay has selected two works that were produced before Haywood’s disrepute began to be circulated, and looks at how they portray meaningful relationships between women by framing individual, familiar stories of female victimization in a creative way. Drawing on the narrative condition in these texts of the absence of the father and the dominance of women, it examines how Haywood searches possibilities of women’s history through the portrayal of female friendship and a community of women. The British Recluse envisions the possibility of female alliance and autonomy in the horizontal relationships between the heroines and their choice of companionship and single life. If Cleomira is placed in a position to relate her history as a warning to Belinda, Belinda, by choosing to join Cleomira’s retirement, elevates an individual act into a collective one. On the other hand, “Fantomina” locates a community of women in the series of identities the heroine assumes in the course of the story. From a prostitute to an aristocratic Incognita, the heroine’s experience of living as different characters offers a glimpse of other women’s lives and creates a psychological alliance. “Fantomina” locates a possibility of female genealogy in the survival of three generations of women. By portraying female friendship and a community of women, Haywood not only redefines women’s relationships beyond nature and biology and as social and educational, but also envisions a possibility of female genealogy.
참고문헌 (26)
- Alliston, April, "The Value of Literary Legacy", The Yale Journal of Criticism, 4(1), pp.109~127 (1990)
- Anderson, Emily Hodgson, "Performing the Passions in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina and Miss Betsy Thoughtless", The Eighteen Century, 46(1), pp.1~15 (2005)
- Backscheider, Paula R., "‘I died for Love’: Esteem in Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women in : Fetter’d or Free: British Women Novelists, 1670-1815", pp.152~168 (1986), Ohio UP
- Backscheider, Paula R., "Introduction. Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood", pp.xiii~xlvi (1999), Oxford UP
- Backscheider, Paula R., "The Story of Eliza Haywood Novels: Caveats and Questions in : Saxton and Bocchicchio", pp.19~47
- Backscheider, Paula R., "Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730: An Anthology" (1996), Clarendon
- Blouch, Christine, "‘What Ann Lang Read’: Eliza Haywood and Her Readers in : Saxton and Bocchicchio", pp.300~325
- Bowers, Toni, "The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680- 1760" (1996), Cambridge UP
- Clarke, Norma, "The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters" (2004), Pimlico
- Craft, Catherine A., "Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn’s Fair Vow-Breaker, Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina, and Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote", Modern Language Review, 86, pp.821~838 (1991)
- Craft-Fairchild, Catherine A., "Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women" (1993), Pennsylvania State UP
- Edgeworth, Maria, "Letters for Literary Ladies" (1993), Everyman
- Haywood, Eliza, "The British Recluse; or, The Secret History of Cleomira, Suppos’d Dead in : Backscheider and Richetti", pp.153~224
- Haywood, Eliza, "Fantomina in : Backscheider and Richetti", pp.227~248
- Haywood, Eliza, "Selections from The Female Spectator" (1999), Oxford UP
- Hill, Bridget, "Women, Work, and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England" (1989), Basil Blackwell
- Irigaray, Luce, "This Sex Which Is Not One" (1985), Cornell UP
- Irigaray, Luce, "An Ethics of Sexual Difference" (1993), Cornell UP
- King, Kathryn. R., "New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719-1725 in : A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture", pp.261~275 (2005), Blackwell
- Nussbaum, Felicity A., "‘Savage’ Mothers: Narratives of Maternity in the Mid‐Eighteenth Century", Cultural Critique, 18, pp.123~151 (1991)
- Reeve, Clara, "The Progress of Romance" (1999), Chadwyck-Healey
- Saxton, Kirsten T., "The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood: Essays on Her Life and Work" (2000), UP of Kentucky
- Spencer, Jane, "The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen" (1986), Basil Blackwell
- Spender, Dale, "Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen" (1986), Pandora
- Todd, Janet, "The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1660-1800" (1989), Columbia UP
- Warner, William B., "The Elevation of the Novel in England: Hegemony and Literary History", ELH, 59, pp.577~596 (1992)