Literature & Gender Studies

In her wide-ranging study of women's prose writing during the Romantic period, Fiona Price shows that Joanna Baillie, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, and many others not only shaped and informed the aesthetics of Romanticism but did so by using undervalued genres such as the romance and gothi..

In her wide-ranging study of women's prose writing during the Romantic period, Fiona Price shows that Joanna Baillie, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, and many others not only shaped and informed the aesthetics of Romanticism but did so by using undervalued genres such as the romance and gothi..

Juxtaposing life writing and romance, this study offers the first book-length exploration of the dynamic and complex relationship between the two genres. Through close analysis of a wide variety of life writings by early modern Englishwomen, Eckerle shows how deeply influenced these women were by t..

Juxtaposing life writing and romance, this study offers the first book-length exploration of the dynamic and complex relationship between the two genres. Through close analysis of a wide variety of life writings by early modern Englishwomen, Eckerle shows how deeply influenced these women were by t..

This interdisciplinary book sets a new agenda for international scholarship on Macaulay, and reformulates contemporary ideas about gender and genre in 20th-century British literature...

The essays gathered here examine the legacy of Roxolana, a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who, from harem slave, became legal wife and advisor of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The collection views Roxolana from Western and Eastern European perspectives, as source material is taken from England..

Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This book considers a range of literary texts by both female and male writers which concentrate on detection by women, particularly those which followed the crea..

Focusing attention on the neglected area of relations between brothers and sisters during the early modern period, this volume explores the sibling dynamics that shaped family relations in Italy, England, France, Spain, and Germany. Using an array of feminist and cultural studies approaches, promine..

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713 examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are traced in women's plays. The study represents a major overhaul of current theories of the ..

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713 examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are traced in women's plays. The study represents a major overhaul of current theories of the ..

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713 examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are traced in women's plays. The study represents a major overhaul of current theories of the ..

Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeenth-century England, and their use of discursive and literary forms in advancing an imaginary of polit..