@article{ref1,
title="Deadly Desires, Dubious Pleasures-Grievability, Status, and the Subjection of Female Autonomy in Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess (1719)",
journal="Women's writing",
year="2021",
author="Koegler, C.",
volume="28",
number="1",
pages="20-36",
abstract="Following recent feminist scholarship on Haywood and specifically Love in Excess (1719), this article re-reads Haywood's first novel intersectionally, combining the established focus on female desire with questions of social status, financial independence, and what Judith Butler has called grievability (2009; 2015). Thus diversifying the notion of &quot;women&quot; in the text, and taking up Kathryn R. King's suggestion that some of Haywood's representations are &quot;undeniably misogynistic&quot; (2012), I inquire into the politics of rewarding and punishing female desire and how the novel registers the suffering and loss of women with specific positionalities. Indeed, it is a significant though overlooked aspect that the women who are particularly socially and financially independent-and pursue beau Count D'Elmont with greatest force and cleverness, i.e. Alovysa, Melantha, Ciamara, and Violetta-are far from rewarded: they are killed (Alovysa), married off pregnant to save their reputation (disappearance from the novel and metaphorical death; Melantha), commit suicide (Ciamara), and die of an unspecified illness (Violetta). Reading the novel for its treatment of femininities deemed &quot;too audacious&quot; and &quot;too excessive,&quot; and inquiring into the underlying dynamics of gendered power, I explore the extent to which Haywood renders the subjection of female autonomy not only acceptable, but gratifying. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0969-9082",
doi="10.1080/09699082.2019.1616954",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2019.1616954"
}