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Overview: For your next major assignment, you will analyze one of the major texts we will read this semester. Your literary analysis will use academic research to help you make an argument. This paper will be at least 3 pages (not including your Works Cited) and should use at least 2 scholarly, peer-reviewed sources. As part of the process for this assignment, you will be required to present your research as an Annotated Bibliography. The Process of Developing your Argument: Good literary critics don’t begin with a thesis; they begin with a question, a hypothesis, or even just a hunch. They then do research to either answer their question or prove their hypothesis. You should do the same. You need to choose an author to work with, one whose writing you find particularly memorable, disturbing, or problematic. What have you read that has left you asking questions? You need to do research and read about your chosen author, text(s), and/or their historical and social contexts. As you conduct research, you can begin to develop your argument and figure out your thesis. Next, you should remember what you learned about developing arguments in the critical analysis assignment. Who is your audience? How can they be persuaded? What kind of supporting evidence do you need in order to convince them? Etc. Write. Audience and Structure: When you write an argument, you must always consider your audience’s point of view. For this assignment, assume you are writing to persuade a neutral or undecided audience. Generally, the best strategy for appealing to undecided audiences is the classically structured argument outlined below. What characterizes the classical argument is the writer’s willingness to summarize opposing views fairly and to respond to them openly—either by trying to refute them or by conceding to their strengths and then shifting to a different field of values. [Note: This outline is only a suggestion—you are not required to structure your essay in this way.] Introduction (one to several paragraphs) Attention grabber (often quotes or cites a memorable passage from the text being analyzed) Explanation of the question you hope to answer Background information if needed for context Your claim, in which you assert your answer to the question you’ve posed Forecasting passage that previews how you will support your claim Presentation of your position Main body of essay Presents and supports each reason for your claim in turn Each reason is tied to a value or belief held by the audience Summary of opposing views Summary of possible views differing from your own (should be fair and complete) Response to opposing views Refutes or concedes to opposing views Shows weaknesses in opposing views May concede to some strengths Conclusion Brings essay to closure Often sums up argument Leaves strong last impression Often relates topic to a larger context of issues Requirements: 3 pages minimum (excluding Works Cited) Must include at least 2 scholarly, peer-reviewed sources MLA format, including citations and Works Cited page ***A Annotated Bib has been written regarding this story, please use to help with writing paper, I will attach***

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Fantomina: or Love in a Maze: An Annotated Bibliography:

Dowd-Arrow, Emily, and Sarah Creel. Seduction or assault? Eliza Haywood and the 18^th Century Rape Culture of Today, Collections, Featured, Women’s Lives in the 18^th Century, 2013.

Sarah Creel and Emily Dowd Arrow, authors of this article, analyze the significance of the culture of rape in modern and past society day. Besides, the authors give facts on how Fantomina presents a good case study and helps understand matches between sexual conversation and the culture of rape in the 18^th Century.  The distinct views between the way women are abashed in the society that they are active sexually. Yet, they sympathize with the young men to favor prostitutes’ ideas, eventually typifying the role Fantomina is playing on the dangerous ground (Craft 821). In one scene, Beauplaisir is arriving where Fantomina stays, which ends in what is considered rape, which is still taking place in modern society. This source is useful to my field of study because it shows how critical problems like rape occur in contemporary society. Most girls and women live while fearing rape which is holding some stigma to the female gender in the society, unlike the population of males. There are several naïve and young girls and women in the society who are becoming insensible to some settings, and in the end, people are taking advantage of them. The culture of rape is a setting where rape cases are prevalent (Comitini 69). Thus, this source will be significant for me because it will help me better understand the vital information that Eliza Haywood shows in the whole reading.

Craft, Catherine A. Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn’s Fair Vow-Breaker, Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina, and Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote.” The Modern Language Review 86.4 (1991): 821.

Catherine centers on possible indoctrination of female treatise within work that is conventional” (Garcia 12). Considering Catherine’s belief that for publication of women in the eighteenth Century, women must only have articles on their affairs and love and all the writings should follow prescribed literary publications published by the male (Hinnant  403). The author contends that women could not be far-reaching because women will not be published easily. Therefore, all the writers interested in including new views about the women and men in their works used dissembling and hypocrisy assigned to them frequently by the male gender (822). This source recognizes that the writings of women are widespread. Therefore, this source backs up the claim and facts I will write about the modern society and the eighteenth Century how women are viewed.

Work Cited

Craft, Catherine A. “Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn’s “Fair Vow-Breaker,” Eliza Haywood’s “Fantomina,” And Charlotte Lennox’s “Female Quixote.” The Modern Language Review, vol 86, no. 4, 2018, p. 821. JSTOR, doi: 10.2307/3732539.

Comitini, Patricia. “Imaginative Pleasures: Fantomina, Ideology, And Aesthetics.” Studies In Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol 43, no. 1, 2020, p. 69. Project Muse, doi:10.1353/sec.2014.0005.

Garcia, Ruth G. “Sartorial Subversion: Eliza Haywood’S Fantomina And The Literary Tradition Of Women’S Community.” Women’s Writing, 2020, p. 12. Informa UK Limited, doi:10.1080/09699082.2020.1767755.

Hinnant, Charles H. “IRONIC INVERSION IN ELIZA HAYWOOD’s FICTION: FANTOMINA AND “THE HISTORY OF THE INVISIBLE MISTRESS.” Women’s Writing, vol 17, no. 3, 2014, p. 403. Informa UK Limited, doi:10.1080/09699080903162021.