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Öğe Eighteenth-Century women’s writing and the canon(Istinye University, 2022) Yurttaş, HaticeEighteenth-century women’s writing has attracted much critical attention in recent decades and as a result, the English novel canon has been subjected to some revisions. While the value of early women writers’ contribution to the novel genre has thus been acknowledged, there is still need for critical work to relate these writers to the canon. This need shows itself in the vague use of the term romance and/or amatory fiction for the writings of women writers such as Aphra Behn, Penelope Aubin, and Eliza Haywood without clearly establishing the difference between the novel and romance. Here I will address the difference between the writings that are usually named romance or amatory fiction and the novel investigating the representations of the individual. The narrative of the individual in early fiction diverges from the realist novel in various ways. Embodiment is one difference that emerges in the narration of cannibalism to physical violence, from sexual desire to pregnancy whereas later in the eighteenth-century, as the novel starts to gain respectability as a distinct and stable genre, the subject loses this form of existence and becomes a disembodied subject conceived as pure consciousness. Also, in contrast to the common critical view, romances represent identity as changeable and indetermined positions that cannot be grasped within dualities of gender or subject and object. It is not a coincidence that interest in early women’s writing arose alongside the poststructural critique of the subject constructed on Cartesian dualities or the dualities that emerged in Ancient Greek as Derrida argues. Early women’s fiction open up fictitious spaces for alternative ways of being.
