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HumanitiesGender StudiesLiteratureLiterary CriticismLiterary StudiesWomen's LiteratureFeminist CriticismFeminist Literary CriticismFeminist LiteratureGender In LiteratureWomen WritersWomen's WritingEnglish Women NovelistsFemale Literary VoiceFemale Subjectivity In LiteratureFeminine AuthorshipWomen's Literary HistoryWomen's Representation In LiteratureWomen's Writing HistoryWomen’s Novel
Part 1 Gender and genre: the rise of the novel - gender and genre in theories of prose fiction observing the forms - amatory fiction and the construction of a female reader. Part 2 Women writers: A Devil on't, the Woman Damns the Poet - Aphra Behn's fictions of feminine identity A Genius for Love - sex as politics as seduction in Eliza Haywood's amatory fiction Preparatives to Love - fiction as seduction in Eliza Haywood's amatory prose. Conclusion: The decline of amatory fiction - re(de)fining the female form.