Interest in the work of Eliza Haywood has increased greatly over the last two decades. Though much scholarship is focused on her ‘scandalous’ early career, this critical edition of The Invisible Spy (1755) adds to the canon of her later, more sophisticated work.
Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, this title provides a fresh perspective on the rise of the novel.
Eliza Haywood was one of the most popular and versatile writers of the eighteenth century. The two novellas in this edition – The Rash Resolve... Læs mere