"Queering" Eliza Haywood.
Scholars consistently read the texts of Eliza Haywood through a culturally defined heteronormative lens. Yet Haywood's texts in multiple genres throughout the course of her career structurally and descriptively present same- sex relationships of varying degrees of intimacy. This essay explores what...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 9 - 25 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Fall2014
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| Sumario: | Scholars consistently read the texts of Eliza Haywood through a culturally defined heteronormative lens. Yet Haywood's texts in multiple genres throughout the course of her career structurally and descriptively present same- sex relationships of varying degrees of intimacy. This essay explores what happens when we disrupt our methods for interpreting Haywood and complicate our readings by recognizing her creation of non- normative possibilities for intimacy, gender formation, and narrative structures across the span of her career. |
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