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La Calprenède, Gauthier, 132

Laclau, Ernesto, 125 , 290 n

Lafayette, Marie, 91 n, 97 ;

La Princess de Clèves , 3 , 48 , 116 , 224 n;

Princess of Monpensier , 48

Lawrence, D. H., 293

Leake, James, 227

Leavis, F. R., 292

Leibniz, Gottfried, 135 , 138 , 139 , 144

Lennox, Charlotte: Female Quixote , 140 , 226 , 282 , 286 -87

L'Estrange, Roger, 47 , 48

Letter form, Richardson's use of, 204 , 206 -7, 281

Les Lettres Portugaises , 48

Lewis, Matthew, 291

Libertinism: autonomy of, 190 ;

in novels, 160 , 188 , 216 ;

in Restoration, 92 , 174

Liberty: in British novel, 24 , 25 ;

in succession crisis, 51

Licensing:

Charles II's practice of, 138 ;

of cultural production, 16 ;

end of, 130 ;

of entertainment, 127 , 179 , 209 , 222 , 237 , 246 , 294

Licensing act, lapse of, 47 , 138

Literary culture:

conflict with media culture, xvi ;

Marxist view of, 124 ;

in print market, 146 -47 .

See also Culture; Media culture

Literary history, xi ;

Anglocentrism in, 32 ;

and cultural history, 40 -41;

feminist, xiv , 49 , 88 , 89 -90, 92 ;

licensing of cultural production, 16 , 294 ;

national, 26 , 28 ;

pedagogical function of, 19 ;

rise of novel in, 14 -19, 21 , 122 , 277 ;

romantic, 23 -24;

Whig, 49

Locke, John, 25

Longman, Thomas, 185

Love, erotic, 51 ;

Behn's exaltation of, 52 -50;

in Haywood, 120 -21;

as self-licensing, 55 .

See also Body; Sex

Love in Excess (Haywood): and Robinson Crusoe , 150 n;

erotic love in, 216 -17;

market for, 115 ;

plot of, 113 ;

reading in, 110 , 116 -21, 179 , 212 -13;

seriality of, 115 ;

success of, 94 .

See also under Haywood, Eliza

Love Letters (Behn):

Adventures section, 53 , 55 , 63 -68, 74 -76, 78 ;

aesthetic ambition of, 294 ;

Amours section, 53 , 65 , 69 n, 74 , 75 , 76 -86, 112 ;

anonymity of, 47 ;

as continental novel, 52 ;

character change in, 68 ;

coherence of, 65 , 82 ;

communication in, 67 , 68 ;

dedication of, 51 -52;

diplomacy in, 73 -74;

disguise in, 57 , 73 , 74 -78, 94 , 95 -96, 195 -96;

erotic body in, 68 -74, 216 -17;

freedom in, xv , 60 , 196 ;

homoeroticism in, 69 , 95 ;

impotence in, 55 -56, 57 , 58 -59, 74 ;

incest in, 53 , 58 ;

Law in, 66 , 67 , 68 ;

Letters section, 53 -62;

libertinism in, 94 , 96 ;

loyal love in, 83 ;

magical sex in, 78 -82;

marriage in, 60 -62;

narrator of, 82 ;

novel reading in, 99 n;

obscene father in, 57 -59, 62 , 65 , 67 , 68 , 75 -78, 266 ;

personal freedom in, 83 ;

politics in, 62 , 94 -97, 116 ;

power in, 72 -73, 79 ;

publication of, 50 , 52 -53;

rape in, 71 ;

religious spectacle in, 83 -84;

seriality of, 46 -47, 53 , 63 , 64 -65, 66 , 85 , 86 , 115 ;

subject positions in, 76 , 78 , 86 .

See also under Behn, Aphra

Lubbock, Percy, 292 ;

Craft of Fiction , 36