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Tables of Contents for Seductive Forms
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
6
I. GENDER AND GENRE
7
62
1. The Rise of the Novel: Gender and Genre in Theories of Prose Fiction
7
24
2. Observing the Forms: Amatory Fiction and the Construction of a Female Reader
31
38
II. WOMEN WRITERS
69
127
3. `A Devil on't, the Woman Damns the Poet': Aphra Behn's Fictions of Feminine Identity
69
45
4. `A Genius for Love': Sex as Politics in Delarivier Manley's Scandal Fiction
114
39
5. `Preparatives to Love': Fiction as Seduction in Eliza Haywood's Amatory Prose
153
43
Conclusion: The Decline of Amatory Fiction: Re(de)fining the Female Form
196
16
Bibliography
212
15
Index
227