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.
- ISBN13 9781551111216
- Publish Date 28 February 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Broadview Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 178
- Language English