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The Adventures of Rivella (Broadview Literary Texts) Hardcover - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Manley, Delarivier/ Zelinsky, Katherine (Editor)
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- Hardcover
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- Title The Adventures of Rivella (Broadview Literary Texts)
- Author Manley, Delarivier/ Zelinsky, Katherine (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 178
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Pr
- Date 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # __1551113163
- ISBN 9781551113166 / 1551113163
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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.