Women Writing Fancy

1. Introduction: Fancy—The Untold Story of an Aesthetic Rogue
Maura Smyth

Part I. Defining Modernity and Fixing Fancy

2. Threads That Go Nowhere in The Tempest and The New Atlantis

Maura Smyth

3. Finding Fancy in Leviathan and Paradise Lost

Maura Smyth

Part II. Talking Back: Fanciful ‘Creatoresses’ of the Novel

4. Margaret Cavendish’s Fashioning of Fancy
Maura Smyth

5. Going Undercover with Aphra Behn’s “Female Pen”
Maura Smyth

6. Plotting Fancy in The New Atalantis and Fantomina

Maura Smyth

Part III. Fancy’s Afterlife

7. Afterword: Fancy and the Tinctures, Tones, and Flavors of History
Maura Smyth

8. Coda: The Persistence of Fancy
Maura Smyth

Keywords: Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Feminist Culture, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature