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    Eliza Haywood’s progress through the passions
    Hultquist, Aleksondra (Palgrave, 2015)
    Passionate motifs—usually the passion of love and the dangerous consequences of hyper-emotionality—pervade Eliza Haywood’s early novellas. This repetition of emotionality and the sustained analytical voice which comments on the episodes of her fictional stories create a kind of emotional philosophy. There are clear rules for emotional living in Haywood’s texts, and in her works the passions provide structure for an eighteenth-century notion of individuality. By examining "Reflections on the Various Effects of Love" (1726) and "Life’s Progress through the Passions; or the Adventures of Natura" (1748), Hultquist demonstrates that, over this twenty-two year span, Haywood creates a discourse for and a theory of the passions, an authentic way of living passionately, in a fictional narrative form.
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    Bringing order to the passions: Eliza Haywood’s fiction, 1719 and 1748
    Hultquist, Aleksondra (Routledge, 2015)
    The conversation surrounding the importance, significance, and use of the passions reached a kind of fevered pitch in the eighteenth century, the supposed Age of Reason. By the early eighteenth century, the passions were generally understood as something to be governed by reason. Another philosophy of thought on controlling the passions existed: ordering the emotions through emotional organization rather than “reasonable” control. The work of Eliza Haywood—a prolific eighteenth-century author, actress, playwright, translator, and publisher—is a particularly fertile place to examine feeling in fictional form. Haywood provides a different framework for understanding the passions—that the passions themselves, rather than reason, bring order to the passions. This understanding of the passions places reason and feeling in slightly different terms, terms that are far less hierarchical than has been assumed. This chapter argues that Eliza Haywood’s discussions of emotion in her fiction theorizes a particular mode of ordering the passions, not through reason, but through emotion, a dialogue that is in conversation with the sustained emotional discourse of how to shape emotion in the eighteenth century.
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    Creole space: Jamaica, rehabilitation and British literature
    Hultquist, Aleksondra (Ashgate, 2014)
    Eighteenth-century literature is replete with threats of removal to Jamaica for those women who have fallen on morally dubious times. It is possible to read this pattern as sending the damned to a damned place as a way to preserve the metropole, but as with any space so saturated with contradiction, Jamaica can sometimes allow certain women to regain their moral standing, just as masculine characters regain their financial or social prominence. Sometimes Jamaica is a space that recuperates the fallen female. Though analysis of "A Trip to Jamaica," Edward Ward (1698), William Pittis’s "The Jamaica Lady" (1719), Delarivier Manley’s “The Physician’s Stratagem” (1725), Samuel Richardson’s "Pamela" (1741), Eliza Haywood’s "The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless"(1751), Edward Long’s "History of Jamaica" (1774), and Sophia Lee’s "The Recess" (1783) this chapter examines the power of Jamaica as a creolized space—a place in which several contradicting realities exist—to argue that such a space can be read as socially and morally redemptive, a locale with the power to allow female characters to remake themselves.
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    Absent children and the emergence of female subjectivity in Haywood’s "The British recluse" and "The city jilt"
    Hultquist, Aleksondra (AMS Press, Inc., 2015)
    This paper examines the trope of still-birth in Haywood’s The British Recluse, and how that trope functions as an emblem of one of the ways in which the amatory heroine creates a viable “personhood” outside of the traditional roles for women in the eighteenth-century: virgin, wife, mother, or widow. Haywood can imagine alternatives to the social structures and roles cast upon women who explore areas of themselves that compromise their virtue, but she cannot make them exist within the social structures that seduce, ruin, and discard them—even if they are able to maintain or regain their reputation as virtuous women in the end.
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    Marriage in Haywood; or, amatory reading rewarded
    Hultquist, Aleksondra (Lehigh University Press, 2011)
    By reading Eliza Haywood more widely and considering works that bridge her career, it becomes clear that a drastic reformation in style and theme did not really occur between Haywood's early and later publications. Because she never converted from an amatory aesthetic to a didactic one, her later fiction demands interpretation. This essay considers the way in which the treatment of marriage figures into Haywood's work, in order to argue that her too perfect plot resolutions point out the problems of the marriage convention for women in eighteenth-century fiction. The article rereads the marriage convention in "Love in Excess," then reads Haywood's advice on marriage in Book 2 of "The Female Spectator" and finally reinterprets the ending of "The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless" to demonstrate how Haywood writes her own version of the domestic novel.
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    Master Class, by David Pownall
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Coghill, 1987)
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    Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Coghill, 1988)
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    The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, by Brian Moore
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Coghill, 1987)
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    Amy’s Children, by Olga Masters
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Coghill, 1989)