Fantomina Flashcards
What is the full title of Fantomina?
Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze. Being a Secret History of Amour Between Two Persons of Condition
What year did Haywood write Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze
1724
What genre does Haywood use to describe her novel?
A ‘History’.
This term is characteristic of the emerging novel genre. Blurs fact and fiction in this new genre of novel (came from either History or Romance.)
What French references are in the novel?
‘Secret History of Amour’
‘Beauplaisir’
‘Sent her to a monastery in France’
What is the name of Fantomina’s lover?
Beauplaisir
Literally: beautiful pleasure, but sexual connotations
What genre, other than the novel, does Fantomina participate in?
Conduct literature.
Also, History
What was Haywood’s periodical called?
The Female Spectator
It extended the coffeehouse culture to include women (to some degree, not actually in the coffeehouse space)
What quote condemns Fantomina?
‘The blame is wholly hers’
Who says ‘the blame is wholly hers’ in Fantomina?
Her mother
What gender is Fantomina’s child?
A girl
A sense of cycle? But born into London, unlike F, and born illegitimately.
What name encapsulates Fantomina’s nature of adopting personas?
Incognita
What is an effect of the letters? In Fantomina
Shows duplicity of both Beauplaisir and Fantomina.
What does Fantomina say on receiving Beauplaisir’s letter?
Traitor! (cried she!)
Emphasised in letters
What effect does the sudden insertion of ‘I’ in Fantomina’s third person narrative have?
Narrator’s voice brings fiction into reality.
What are Fantomina’s personas called?
Fantomina
Celia
Widow Bloomer
(Incognita)
What is the quote in Fantomina that references an embryo?
She had ‘another project in embryo’
What is the quote in Fantomina that foreshadows her pregnancy?
She had ‘another project in embryo’
What quote shows Fantomina’s country background?
She was bred for the most part in the country
…
A stranger to the world
A quote that shows Fantomina’s initial innocence.
She was ‘a stranger to the world’
What is the quote that shows ‘Fantomina’ using first person voice, blurring reality and fiction?
‘I know there are men…’
What year did Haywood publish The Female Spectator?
1744
So when she wrote Fantomina in 1724 the coffehouse culture was still very limited for women
Before the reader learns Fantomina’s name, how is she referred to?
A young lady of distinguished birth
Lady Such-a-one
Woman
Girl
Instead of a name, what is Fantomina called?
Lady such-a-one
A young lady of distinguished birth
Woman. Girl. (Only when she is ‘a supposed prostitute’ though)
What quote shows Beauplaisir raping Fantomina?
She was undone; and he gained a victory
(Fantomina) She was undone…
And he gained a victory.
