Ros Ballaster is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Oxford and professorial fellow in English at Mansfield College. Two monographs, Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction 1684-1740 (Oxford University Press, 1992) and Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 (Oxford University Press, 2005), investigate the importance of fantasy in the shaping of the eighteenth-century English novel.
9 Ebooks de Ros Ballaster
ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah: The Principles of Sufism
‘A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, ‘A’ishah received a thorough religious edu …
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Ros Ballaster: Fabulous Orients
Narrative moves. Stories migrate from one culture to another, over vast distances sometimes, but their path is often difficult to trace and obscured by time. Fabulous Orients looks at the traffic of …
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€49.97
Ros Ballaster: Fables of the East
Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and …
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€36.10
Ros Ballaster: Seductive Forms
Historicist and feminist accounts of the `rise of the novel’ have neglected the phenomenon of the professional woman writer in England prior to the advent of the sentimental novel in the 1740s. Seduc …
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€54.12
Elizabeth Frazer & Margaret Beetham: Women’s Worlds
This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors’ critical reading of past and present mag …
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€51.07
Ros Ballaster: Fictions of Presence
An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of ‘presence’ in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century. In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found itse …
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€30.99
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
‘The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste’ Virginia Woolf Jane Austen’s subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world w …
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€6.99
Ros Ballaster: Fictions of Presence
An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage f …
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€25.66
?A?ishah al-Ba?uniyyah: Principles of Sufism
‘A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, ‘A’ishah received a thorough religious edu …
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€17.93
