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Love in Excess; or, the Fatal Enquiry by Eliza Haywood Edited by David Oakleaf broadview literary texts

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title	:	Love in Excess, or : The Fatal Enquiry Broadview Literary Texts
author	:	Haywood, Eliza Fowler.; Oakleaf, David
publisher	:	Broadview Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1551110164
print isbn13	:	9781551110165
ebook isbn13	:	9780585240381
language	:	English
subject	England--Fiction, Love stories.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	PR3506.H94L68 1994eb
ddc	:	823/.5
subject	:	England--Fiction, Love stories.

Page 4 1994 David Oakleaf Reprinted 1996, 1997 All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher or in the case of photocopying, a licence from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency) 6 Adelaide Street East, Suite 900, Toronto, Ontario m5c 1h6 is an infringement of the copyright law. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Haywood, Eliza ?16931756 Love in excess; or, The fatal enquiry (Broadview literary texts) ISBN 1-55111-016-4 I. Oakleaf, David, 1947- . II. Title, III. Title: The fatal enquiry. IV. Series. PR3506.H9416 1994 823'.5 c94-930560-x Broadview Press Post Office Box 1243, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7H5 in the United States of America: 3576 California Road, Orchard Park, NY 14127 in the United Kingdom: B.R.A.D. Book Representation & Distribution Ltd., 244A, London Road, Hadleigh, Essex. SS7 2DE Broadview Press is grateful to Professor Eugene Benson for advice on editorial matters for the Broadview Literary Texts series. Broadview Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ministry of Canadian Heritage.

Page 5 CONTENTS Introduction 7 A Note on the Text 25 Eliza Haywood: A Brief Chronology 28 Selected Bibliography 32 Love In Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry 37 Bookseller's Dedication 39 Part the First 41 Part the Second 85 The Third and Last Part 167 Appendix: Some Eighteenth-Century Responses to Eliza Haywood 275

Page 7 INTRODUCTION Love in Excess is the spectacularly successful first novel of a spectacularly successful novelist. Building on its success, Eliza Haywood wrote a novel "on average every three months" during the 1720s (Ballaster 15960)1 and became the decade's most popular and prolific novelist. Only five years later, she included Love in Excess in the first of several substantial collections of her works. She devoted the 1730s and early 1740s to an eclectic array of other activities including acting, theatrical and periodical writing, translation, and even publishing but then returned to fiction in the late 1740s. As William H. McBurney reminds us, she did not win her early renown by default: "In 1719 appeared the first parts of two novels which in terms of book sales share with Gulliver's Travels the distinction of being the most popular English fiction of the eighteenth century before Pamela. These were Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry and The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" (McBurney 250). Haywood enjoyed this striking achievement in a highly competitive literary marketplace. Although literacy rates were increasing in the eighteenth century, relatively few people could read and even fewer could afford to spend shillings on books. New groups of readers alone (e.g., wage-earners or an increasingly literate female population) could not provide a viable market (see Ballaster 3641, but cf. 170). When Love in Excess entered the dynamic, experimental literary scene, it won its acclaim from the same sophisticated, demanding readers who eagerly consumed the literary classics of the day. Daniel Defoe's first novel is one of the most popular novels ever printed in any language. Like Robinson Crusoe and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (a non-novelistic blockbuster two decades too early for 1 Parenthetical citations refer to works listed in the Selected Bibliography.

Page 8 McBurney's list), Gulliver's Travels won enduring popularity as well as critical esteem. Samuel Richardson's first novel Pamela McBurney's standard of immediate success is itself partly in the tradition of Haywood. It was so popular that Pamela, then an obscure literary name, became and has remained a popular girls' name. Love in Excess earned its prominent place in this remarkable fiction explosion of the eighteenth century and regularly appeared with collections of Haywood's works into the 1740s. Though we now know little about the private woman behind this conspicuous success, our ignorance is no proof of her obscurity. A successful actress as well as a very important writer in an impressive variety of forms, Haywood was solidly enmeshed in the literary scene of her day. We still can catch teasing glimpses of her in studies of writers now more famous, including the notoriously evasive Defoe, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and the minor writer Richard Savage, who had the good fortune to have his biography written by his friend Samuel Johnson. Haywood wrote

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