Catherine Ingrassia

Authorship, commerce, and gender in early eighteenth-century England : a culture of paper credit

Acknowledgements Introduction: paper credit 1. Women, credit and the South Sea Bubble 2. Pope, gender, and the commerce of culture 3. Eliza Haywood and the culture of professional authorship 4. The (gender) politics of the literary marketplace 5. Samuel Richardson and the domestication of paper credit Conclusion: negotiable paper Notes Index Bibliography.

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 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.