Ladies in Distress: Agency and Peril in the Early Fiction of
Eliza Haywood

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Ladies in Distress: Agency and Peril in the Early Fiction of Eliza Haywood

HOCHMANOVÁ, Dita

Základní údaje

Originální název

Ladies in Distress: Agency and Peril in the Early Fiction of Eliza Haywood

Název česky

Ženy v nesnázích v ranném díle Elizy Haywoodové

Autoři

HOCHMANOVÁ, Dita

Vydání

Minding the Gaps, Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, Brno, Czech Republic, 2025

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60205 Literary theory

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Book of Abstracts

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Pedagogická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

teorie afektu, rétorika hněvu, vykreslení nebezpečí a tísně

Klíčová slova anglicky

affect theory, rhetoric of outrage, imagery of distress

Změněno: 21. 1. 2026 10:07, Mgr. Dita Hochmanová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Widely celebrated for her experimental prose, Eliza Haywood (1693–1756) was a major contributor to the development of the novel as a genre and one of the best-selling writers of her time. In contrast to the moral tone of her later works, Haywood’s early prose from the 1720s is often regarded as scandalous and has been highlighted by researchers like Kathleen Lubey and Mary Beth Harris for its openness about female sexuality and its challenge to established ideas of gender roles. Apart from daring thematic choices, her amatory fiction expresses Haywood’s objections through means that would later become inadmissible. This contribution examines Haywood’s early novels from the perspective of affect theory and explores the rhetorical strategies she uses to engage her audience. By analyzing the imagery and atmosphere of distress in her novel Idalia (1723), the paper demonstrates that, beyond encouraging readers to empathize with her wretched heroines, Haywood also employs a rhetoric of outrage. Through this approach, she offers an alternative fantasy of female revenge, blending it with the more popular sentimental narratives of reconciliation in marriage and the tragic death of wronged innocence.

Citovat

HOCHMANOVÁ, Dita. Ladies in Distress: Agency and Peril in the Early Fiction of Eliza Haywood. In Minding the Gaps, Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, Brno, Czech Republic. 2025.

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HOCHMANOVÁ, Dita. Ladies in Distress: Agency and Peril in the Early Fiction of Eliza Haywood. In \textit{Minding the Gaps, Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, Brno, Czech Republic}. 2025.

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