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Fair philosopher : Eliza Haywood and The female spectator

Edited by Lynn Marie Wright and Donald J. Newman
Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press, 2006

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Book description
'Fair Philosopher', the first sustained scholarly study of 'the Female Spectator', brings together an impressive collection of established and upcoming Haywood scholars who challenge much of the received opinion about this groundbreaking journal. Several of the essays show that Haywood's periodical was far more political than is generally thought, that its connections to her career as a novelist are more intimate than has been recognised, and that 'The spectator' was a target as well as a model. Other essays examine 'The Female Spectator's' position in a developing print tradition. There is much new in these pages about how Haywood's writing illuminates and shapes women's experience in the eighteenth century in its engagement with social, economic, political, historical, and literary issues. This collection makes a convincing argument that Haywood's periodical deserves far more critical attention than it has received so fare and suggests new lines of development for future Haywood scholarship. The volume concludes with a valuable bibliographic essay.

About the author
Lynn Marie Wright, PhD, is Associate Professor of English at Pasadena City College and co-director of the Teaching and Learning Centre.

Donald J. Newman, an ex-newspaper reporter, earned his PhD in British literature at the University of Southern California (1992), where he specialized in the eighteenth century. He is currently an associate professor of English at The university of Texas-Pan American.

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