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Haywood's re-appropriation of the amatory heroine in Betsy Thoughtless.(Eliza Haywood)(Critical essay)

Although Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) continues to hold sway over critical accounts of the English novel, scholars have also argued that the influence of amatory fiction was not, in fact, silenced by Pamela's publication. Catherine Ingrassia, Patrick Spedding, and Kathryn King recently have suggested that the style and popularity of amatory authors such as Eliza Haywood continued at least into the 1750s. (1) The influential work of critics such as Nancy Armstrong, Michael McKeon, and William Warner has challenged Ian Watt's conception of realism in The Rise of the Novel, yet it still tends to leave Pamela at the center of the eighteenth-century ...

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