Seductive Forms - Ballaster, Ros (Fellow in English Literature, Fellow in English Literature, Mansfield College, Oxford)

Seductive Forms is a highly praised account of women's contribution to the `rise of the novel' in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in England. The prose fiction of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood is considered as both providing erotic pleasure for its readers and scoring political points for its partisan (Tory) authors.