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# Love in Excess (Broadview Literary Text)

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Eliza 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 Robinson Crusoe and Haywood’s first novel, Love in Excess . As this edition enables modern readers to discover, its enormous success is easy to understand. Love in Excess 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. Haywood’s frankness about female sexuality may explain the later neglect of Love in Excess . (In contrast, her accomplished domestic novel, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless , has remained available.) Love in Excess and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum. For the second Broadview edition, the appendix of eighteenth-century responses to Haywood has been considerably expanded.

Review: Five Stars - A great book from 18th entry literature.
Review: romance - an early example of a romance novel with the women being taken advantage of and men not being shown in a good light

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #1,168,213 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #376 in Epistolary Fiction (Books) #40,443 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 3.6 out of 5 stars 38 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by A***R on April 27, 2017*

A great book from 18th entry literature.

### ⭐⭐⭐ romance
*by B***L on September 14, 2013*

an early example of a romance novel with the women being taken advantage of and men not being shown in a good light

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I rave - I burn - I am mad with wild desires"
*by P***O on January 22, 2011*

So laments out one of Eliza's Haywood's love-crazed heroines in LOVE IN EXCESS. Don't read this book unless you can enter fully into the amatory spirit of the early eighteenth century! You'll be expected to shudder at the power of passion, tremble when a man tempts a virtuous woman - and sympathize with fainting fits, jealous ravings and the short fuses of duel-happy cavaliers. Eliza Haywood burst upon the London literary scene with LOVE IN EXCESS in 1719, the same year Defoe published ROBINSON CRUSOE. Both novels created a sensation. Haywood's plot centers around Count D'elmont, a young war hero whose great charm and personal beauty cause one woman after another to pursue him. He himself is immune to sentiment and marries purely for money. Too late, he encounters a young woman who makes him burn with love. Various other ladies and gentlemen in the Count's circle fall prey to love and furnish the reader with heart-pounding adventures. Shocking things happen, including murders, suicides, abductions and betrayals of trust. Haywood maintains that her characters can't be blamed for their excesses. Love is a misfortune like poverty or sickness and "absolutely controls the will." I was inspired to re-read Haywood's first novel after finishing her last novel, THE HISTORY OF JEMMY AND JENNY JESSAMY. Reading these books in succession is fascinating, because Haywood does a complete turnaround between 1719 and 1753. Her hot-blooded lovers give way to calm and utterly rational lovers. Haywood wrote for a living and had to update her product to satisfy the changing literary marketplace. LOVE IN EXCESS is a must-read for fans of Eliza Haywood. Others, of course, might find it excessive. I definitely recommend the Broadview edition. I loved the lively introduction, with its infectious enthusiasm and deep scholarship.

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