{"product_id":"love-in-excess-second-edition-9781551113678","title":"Love in Excess - Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eEliza Haywood (1693-1756) was one of the most successful writers of her time; indeed, the two most popular English novels in the early eighteenth-century were \u003cem\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e and Haywood's first novel, \u003cem\u003eLove in Excess\u003c\/em\u003e. As this edition enables modern readers to discover, its enormous success is easy to understand. \u003cem\u003eLove in Excess\u003c\/em\u003e is a well crafted novel in which the claims of love and ambition are pursued through multiple storylines until the heroine engineers a melodramatic conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaywood's frankness about female sexuality may explain the later neglect of \u003cem\u003eLove in Excess\u003c\/em\u003e. (In contrast, her accomplished domestic novel, \u003cem\u003eThe History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless\u003c\/em\u003e, has remained available.) \u003cem\u003eLove in Excess\u003c\/em\u003e and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the second Broadview edition, the appendix of eighteenth-century responses to Haywood has been considerably expanded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Oakleaf\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. He specializes in fiction, from Eliza Haywood and Jonathan Swift to Laurence Sterne and Frances Burney. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356193198354,"sku":"9781551113678","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_deb41408-43d8-4d9b-a7c0-c489e56657ac.jpg?v=1728307412","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-in-excess-second-edition-9781551113678","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}