Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bannet, Eve Tavor

Titel

The Narrator as Invisible Spy: Eliza Haywood, Secret History and the Novel

Ist Teil von

• Journal for early modern cultural studies, 2014-10, Vol.14 (4), p.143-162

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This essay argues that Haywood used The Invisible Spy (1755) to lay bare narrative devices that she deployed in much of her amatory fiction as well as in her secret histories, and that distinguished secret history from history, the spy from the spectator, and what Haywood called the “novel” from contemporary confessional forms of fictional writing. Haywood was making a polemical statement both about her own career and about the “novel” at the end of her life, at a moment when history and the novel were contending for supremacy on much the same ground. In doing so, Haywood highlights a key but neglected dimension of the history of the novel.