Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood

"The deliberative and complex Haywood who emerges from this collection is a welcome advance over earlier images of a lightweight hack driven by market forces." -- Studies in the Novel "Will be required reading not just for students of eighteenth-century literature but also for feminist critics and historians of the novel." -- Sandra M. Gilbert "Marks a new stage in Haywood criticism.... The Haywood that emerges from this collection is as varied and complex as the different approaches now being taken to her work." -- Review of English Studies "Provides an excellent comprehensive variety of approaches to the work of Eliza Haywood, whose novels and writing have in the past few years come to be essentially canonical." -- Martha Bowden "Saxton and Bocchicchio deserve congratulations and applause for their initiative in putting together this long-needed collection of critical essays on Eliza Haywood. The great strength of the collection is its range. It will be welcomed as an extremely important contribution by a large and varied community of scholars and critics." -- Jerry C. Beasley "Serves to confirm the increasingly canonical status of Haywood." -- Eighteenth-Century Studies "The publication of this welcome volume of essays marks a pivotal moment in Haywood scholarship.... Much in the collection will make a decisive contribution." -- Eighteenth-Century Fiction "The editors approach Haywood from a number of theoretical positions, leading the way in a crucial re-examination of her work." -- Educational Book Review "After reading the professionally written essays that provide both historically based analysis and close readings of single texts, we see Eliza Haywood in a different light." -- East-Central Intelligencer