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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood Edited by Tiffany Potter The Modern Language Association of America New York 2020 MM7637-Potter(Haywood).indb7637-Potter(Haywood).indb iiiiii 11/13/20/13/20 110:160:16 AAMM © 2020 by The Modern Language Association of America All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America MLA and the MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION are trademarks owned by the Modern Language Association of America. For information about obtaining permission to reprint material from MLA book publications, send your request by mail (see address below) or e-mail ([email protected]). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Potter, Tiffany, 1967– editor. Title: Approaches to teaching the works of Eliza Haywood / edited by Tiffany Potter. Description: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2020. | Series: Approaches to teaching world literature, 10591133 ; 162 | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching novels, plays, and nonfi ction by Eliza Haywood, including considerations of literary genres, gender roles, family dynamics, social class, and popular culture. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses in eighteenth-century English literature, the history of the novel, women’s writing, and general education”— Provided by publisher. Identifi ers: LCCN 2019039523 (print) | LCCN 2019039524 (ebook) | ISBN 9781603294621 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781603294249 (paperback) | ISBN 9781603294256 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781603294263 (Kindle edition) Subjects: LCSH: Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?–1756—Study and teaching. | Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?–1756—Criticism and interpretation. Classifi cation: LCC PR3506.H94 Z57 2020 (print) | LCC PR3506.H94 (ebook) | DDC 823/.5—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019039523 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019039524 Approaches to Teaching World Literature 162 ISSN 1059-1133 Cover illustration of the paperback and electronic editions: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Love Letter. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jules Bache Collection, 1949. Published by The Modern Language Association of America 85 Broad Street, suite 500, New York, New York 10004-2434 www.mla.org MM7637-Potter(Haywood).indb7637-Potter(Haywood).indb iivv 11/13/20/13/20 110:160:16 AAMM CONTENTS Preface ix PART ONE: MATERIALS Texts for Teaching 3 Survey and Classroom Contexts 12 Chronology of Haywood’s Publications 15 PART TWO: APPROACHES Introduction 21 Tiffany Potter Backgrounds Haywood and Her Readers: Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and the Literary Marketplace 28 Tiffany Potter Haywood’s Works: Availability, Editing, and Issues of Bibliography 36 Patrick Spedding Culture and Contexts Avoiding Oroonoko Syndrome: Teaching Haywood and Fantomina in Context 44 Martha F. Bowden Haywood and Problems of Social Class 50 Nicholas Hudson Teaching the Theatrical Thirties: Haywood, Fielding, and Stage Conversations 56 Sarah Creel Haywood and “Amatory Fiction” 63 Toni Bowers Teasing Out Desire: Haywood, the Novel, and the Early Women Writers Course 73 Cynthia Richards Teaching Haywood to a Diverse Student Audience: Negotiating Narrative Structure and Gender, Family, and Legal Structure 80 Cheryl Nixon MM7637-Potter(Haywood).indb7637-Potter(Haywood).indb v 11/13/20/13/20 110:160:16 AAMM vi contents Haywood and the Rise of Modern Popular Culture 88 Paula R. Backscheider Individual Works Professing the Ineffable: Love in Excess, Affect Theory, and the Matter of Romance 96 Stephen Ahern Teaching beyond the Heteronormative: Fantomina and Queering Haywood 103 Catherine Ingrassia Performativity and the Rack of Nature: Identity in Fantomina and The Masqueraders 110 Kim Simpson Fantomina and Betsy Thoughtless: Repetition with Difference 118 Catherine Craft-Fairchild Limits of the Letter in Haywood, Richardson, and Fielding: Teaching Anti-Pamela with Pamela and Shamela 127 Robin Runia “Syrena Was a Girl”: Teaching Anti-Pamela as Protest Literature through Role-Playing 134 Laura Alexander Reforming the Reformation Narrative: Demythologizing Haywood and the Rise of the Novel through Betsy Thoughtless 141 Aleksondra Hultquist “Manfully Resolved”: Haywood’s Masculinities and Betsy Thoughtless in the Eighteenth-Century Fiction Course 148 Christopher F. Loar Eovaai and the Fiction of Fantasy in Eighteenth-Century England 155 Ros Ballaster Literary Communities: The Tea-Table and the Hillarian Circle 162 Earla Wilputte A Spectator View: Narratives of Sex, Consent, and Rape in The Female Spectator and Love in Excess 169 Emily Dowd-Arrow Women, Sex, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Popular Media: The Inv isible Spy and the Elizabeth Canning Case 177 Kathryn R. King MM7637-Potter(Haywood).indb7637-Potter(Haywood).indb vvii 11/13/20/13/20 110:160:16 AAMM contents vii Digital Approaches An Overview of Haywood’s Digital Humanity 185 Laura Runge Nonfatal Inquiry: Love in Excess, Print, and the Internet Age 196 Tonya-Marie Howe Social Reading Practices: Teaching The Female Spectator with Twenty-First-Century Feminocentric Digital Periodicals 204 Kirsten T. Saxton and Cassie Childs Notes on Contributors 213 Survey Participants 217 Works Cited 219 MM7637-Potter(Haywood).indb7637-Potter(Haywood).indb vviiii 11/13/20/13/20 110:160:16 AAMM Texts for Teaching Editions It is possible now to teach a full course on Eliza Haywood from student-friendly modern editions that include extensive introductions, explanatory annotations, and helpful bibliographies. That said, a signifi cant number of Haywood’s many texts still await a modern editorial hand and must be taught from unedited scans of eighteenth-century prints, either online (for faculty members at institutions with the means to subscribe to services like Gale’s Eighteenth Century Col- lections Online [ECCO]), in hard copy prints (those with the best provenance are available from Gale, but others from unscholarly publishers that generate scans of out-of-copyright texts are also for sale on Amazon and other sites); or photocopies or course Web sites, if one has appropriate permissions or access to original texts. Though frugal students often appreciate the no-cost availability of online scans of eighteenth-century documents like those on ECCO, teaching from scans creates challenges for many less experienced readers, while for oth- ers it presents opportunities for different kinds of analysis. Few of Haywood’s texts are available in competing editions; however, regarding those that are, this volume cites those high-quality editions that are the most readily available in stand-alone volumes at a reasonable cost. Nearly all the editions discussed below are also available digitally from their publishers’ Web sites or through services like Kindle, though prices are often not signifi cantly lower than those of printed books. Some edited versions are also available through resources like Google Books. One particularly useful open-access online resource is Jack Lynch’s “minimally edited transcription” of Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze. Many teachers fi rst encounter Haywood through Fantomina, which is also widely reprinted in the standard survey anthologies, including those by Long- man, Norton, and Broadview. Beyond anthologies and beyond Fantomina, Broadview Press has made good industry of expertly edited, high-quality edi- tions at a good price, and their format includes a selection of contextualizing documents by and about Haywood, as well as excerpts from other works that illuminate the issues and environments that frame each text. There are Broad- view editions of Love in Excess (edited by David Oakleaf); Fantomina and Other Works, which includes The Tea-Table (edited by Alexander Pettit et al.); Anti-Pamela, with Henry Fielding’s Shamela (edited by Catherine Ingrassia); The Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo (edited by Earla Wilputte); and The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (edited by Christine Blouch). Several university presses have also produced classroom editions, including Michigan State’s collection of The Distress’d Orphan, The City Jilt, and The Double Mar- riage, published under the title Three Novellas (edited by Wilputte); Kentucky’s The Injur’d Husband and Lasselia (edited by Jerry C. Beasley) and The His- tory of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy (edited by John Richetti); and Toronto’s The MM7637-Potter(Haywood).indb7637-Potter(Haywood).indb 3 11/13/20/13/20 110:160:16 AAMM 4 texts for teaching Masqueraders; or, Fatal Curiosity, and The Surprize; or, Constancy Rewarded (edited by Tiffany Potter). The British Recluse is included in Oxford’s short anthology Popular Fiction by Women, 1660–1730 (edited by Paula R. Back- scheider and Richetti). For a full course on Haywood, instructors would be well advised to consider Backscheider’s Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood, which includes the plays A Wife to Be Lett and The Opera of Operas; full texts of The City Jilt and The Mercenary Lover; and excerpts from Eovaai, The Wife, and The Invisible Spy (including the accounts of the Elizabeth Canning case discussed in Kathryn R. King’s essay for this volume). Teaching The Invisible Spy or The Female Spectator can present something of a challenge in terms of text ac- cess. Both Carol Stewart’s splendid edition of The Invisible Spy and King and Pettit’s authoritative Female Spectator are prohibitively expensive. Selections are available from each in Patricia Meyer Spacks’s Selections from The Female Spectator and in Backscheider’s Selected Fiction and Drama (Invisible Spy), but they must
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