Pengarang: Paula R. Backscheider

Frances Brooke (1724-1789), journalist, translator, playwright, novelist, and even co-manager of a theater, was described as ‘perhaps the first female novel-writer who attained a perfect purity and p …

In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe’s entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception …

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. * An up-to-date resource for …

New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by …

This exciting edition gathers together for the first time a sampling of Haywood’s writings generous enough to represent the full range of her fiction and drama and includes material from each decade …

The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, useful in understanding human experience and social phenomena, gendered and perhaps "natural". Taking the usef …

The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, useful in understanding human experience and social phenomena, gendered and perhaps "natural". Taking the usef …

In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe’s entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception …

Frances Brooke (1724-1789), journalist, translator, playwright, novelist, and even co-manager of a theater, was described as ‘perhaps the first female novel-writer who attained a perfect purity and p …

Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Each essay is a contribution to the history of the English novel, to our understanding of literature”s place in …

Elizabeth Singer Rowe played a pivotal role in the development of the novel during the eighteenth century.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLElizabeth Singer Rowe and t …

“Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by [this] excellent historical and cultural” study of UK women poets of the era (Cynthia Wall, Studies in English Literature …

A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain’s greatest needs during …

This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding full …

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of In …

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of In …

The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that …