Love in Excess (Broadview Literary Text)

Love in Excess (Broadview Literary Text)

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<p> Eliza 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 <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> and Haywood€s first novel, <em>Love in Excess</em>. As this edition enables modern readers to discover, its enormous success is easy to understand. <em>Love in Excess</em> 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. </p> <p> Haywood€s frankness about female sexuality may explain the later neglect of <em>Love in Excess</em>. (In contrast, her accomplished domestic novel, <em>The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless</em>, has remained available.) <em>Love in Excess</em> and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum. </p> <p> For the second Broadview edition, the appendix of eighteenth-century responses to Haywood has been considerably expanded. </p>