Product Description

Delarivier Manley is increasingly coming to the fore as a prominent figure in early eighteenth-century fiction, and The Adventures of Rivella in particular has been attracting attention not only as an important example of amatory fiction, but also as an early autobiographical novel. At one level, Sir Charles Lovemore tells the story of Rivella’s life to his friend, the Chevalier d’Aumont; at another, Manley uses the male persona to portray herself as an unrivalled literary goddess of love, repudiating conventional equations of woman, writer and whore, and refusing to confuse chastity with moral integrity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1125106 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta
"This edition makes this overlooked text widely available; judicious editorial apparatus allows the reader to understand the book's fascinating contexts."

From the Publisher
The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.

About the Author
Katherine Zelinsky currently teaches English at The University of Calgary and has published in the area of eighteenth-century fiction.