{"product_id":"9781551113678","title":"Love in Excess: Or, the Fatal Enquiry","description":"\u003cp\u003eEliza 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 \u003cb\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/b\u003e and Haywood’s first novel, \u003cb\u003eLove in Excess\u003c\/b\u003e. As this edition enables modern readers to discover, its enormous success is easy to understand. \u003cb\u003eLove in Excess\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaywood’s frankness about female sexuality may explain the later neglect of \u003cb\u003eLove in Excess\u003c\/b\u003e. (In contrast, her accomplished domestic novel, \u003cb\u003eThe History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless\u003c\/b\u003e, has remained available.) \u003cb\u003eLove in Excess\u003c\/b\u003e and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the second Broadview edition, the appendix of eighteenth-century responses to Haywood has been considerably expanded. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060237451504,"sku":"9781551113678","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781551113678_p0.jpg?v=1763752923","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781551113678","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}