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INTRODUCTION: Reflections of a Researcher
Assignment 1: Recent Studies in Restoration & 18th-Century
Literature
Assignment 2:
Critical Website Evaluation
Assignment 3:
MLA & WorldCat Topic Search
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Assignment 3: MLA and WorldCat Author/Topic Search Eliza Haywood’s “the Female Spectator” and Feminism A Short Introduction: The bibliography below is the product of an elaborate search exercise to find relative information for a possible literature review regarding Eliza Haywood’s “Female Spectator” and the ideology of feminism. I decided to use feminism as a search topic because I believe Eliza Haywood’s “Female Spectator” captures many aspects of the feminist ideology. For one, Haywood is a pioneer female writer during a time when many women writers were not widely known or respected. The fact that she was so successful in her literary endeavor says a lot about her contribution to the empowerment of women during the 18th century. Thus, I chose to research her as a feminist in two reputable datebase systems. For this search, both MLA International Bibliography and WorldCat databases were used. In each datebase system, I began the search by scoping out only articles between 1993 and 2008. In MLA, I first searched “Eliza Haywood” as a key term. I found a considerable amount of information concerning Haywood’s contribution to 18th century British literature. I then narrowed the search by using both Eliza Haywood and feminism as keywords. The results were considerably less than the previous search, but I was still able to find some very interesting journals and books that view Eliza Haywood’s works through a feminist lense. Next, I searched for “Female Spectator” and found many articles and books relating to film culture and the media’s depiction of women during both the 18th century and more contemporary times. When I searched “Eliza Haywood” as a subject, I realized that her contribution to literature is present in the analysis of stage plays. However, searching for Eliza Haywood” as a subject was less productive than any other search. However, in all of the other searches, there was so much information that I wasn’t able to view everything and include it in my process of elimination. The sources that were chosen were either directly related to Eliza Haywood’s “Female Spectator”, consisted of titles that evidently related to my desired topic, or closely related through feminism and her relationship to other female writers during her time. Also, many of the related articles attempt to define the term “spectator” and put it into perspective with the ideology of feminism. However, none of the authors that are included in the following bibliography are familiar from the “Recent Studies in Restoration and 18th Century Literature’ search. The bibliography on Eliza Haywood’s “Female Spectator” and feminism are listed on the following pages: Backschneider, Paula R. “Beyond Spectacle: Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectators.” Eighteenth Century Fiction 18.1 (2005): 141-43. Ballaster , Rosalind. “Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684- 1740.”Oxford, Claredon Press (1992). Brody Kramnick, Jonathan. “Locke, Haywood, and Consent.” ELH 72.2 (2005): 453 -70. AUC Collins, Margo. “Eliza Haywood’s Cross-Gendered Amatory Audience.” Eighteenth Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work, and Culture 2 (2002): 23-44. Colomina, Beatriz; Bloomer, Jennifer. “Sexuality and Space.” New York, NY. Princeton Architectural. Press, 1992. Cooper, Brenda. “Chick Flicks as Feminists Texts: The Appropriation of the Male Gaze In Thelma And Louise.” Women’s Studies in Communications 23.3 (2000): 277-306. Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. “Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female identity In 18th Century Fictions by Women.” Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. AUC. Eager, Elizabeth. “Women, Writing, and the Public Sphere: 1700-1830.” Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Grathwol, Kathleen B. “A Questioning of ‘Truths’ Universally Acknowledged: Gender And Literary Value in the Eighteenth Century.” Eighteenth Century Studies 36.1 (2002): 138-44. AUC.
Doane, Mary Ann. “Film and the Masquarade: Theorising the Female Spectator.” Feminist Film Theory: A Reader. New York, NY vi. (1999): 361. Jones, Robert W. “Eliza Haywood and the Discourse of Taste.” Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850. Xi. (2002): 242. Kvande, Marta. “Outsider Narrator in Eliza Haywood’s Political Novels.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 43.3 (2003): 625-43. AUC Lubey, Kathleen. “Eliza Haywood’s Amatory Aesthetic.” Eighteenth Century Studies39.3 (2006): 309-22. Merritt, Juliette. “Beyond Spectacle: Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectators.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Science 60.9 (2000): 3377. Mowry, Melissa M. “Eliza Haywood’s Defense of London’s Body Politic.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 43.3 (2003): 645-65. Nussbaun, Felicity A. “The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, andGender in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP;2003. xii, 336. Petit, Alexander. “Terrible Texts, ‘Marginal’Works, and the Mandate of the Moment:The Case of Eliza Haywood.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 22.2 (2003):293-314. Rieger, Christina. “Dante Gabriel Rosseti and the Feminine Spectator.” Nineteenth Century Feminisms 3 (2000): 42-57. Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer. “Selections from The Female Spectator.” New York, Oxford Press, 1999. Thornham, Sue. “Feminist Film Theory: A Reader.” New York University Press, 1999.AUC. |