Equal Performances: An Exploration of Eliza Haywood's Depiction of Hillarian Ideals in Fantomina

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Equal Performances: An Exploration of Eliza Haywood's Depiction of Hillarian Ideals in Fantomina

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Victoria University of Wellington

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My thesis connects Eliza Haywood with the Hillarians, a London-based coterie of young writers and artists headed by Aaron Hill in the first half of the 1720s, and explores the possibility that in Fantomina, Or Love in a Maze (1725), Haywood used tropes of performance from her theatrical career to work out the implications of the Hillarian ideals of progressive conduct on female agency. Haywood’s early novels, including Fantomina, can be connected to the group, and can be shown to encompass it...

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Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2015

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Howard, Genevieve

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Equal_Performances_An_Exploration_of_Eliza_Haywood_s_Depicti...

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British and Irish literature / Women writers / Eliza Haywood / Manuscript / School: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies / British and Irish Literature / Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture / Degree Discipline: English / Degree Level: Masters / Degree Name: Master of Arts

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