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During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. This book describes how playwrights and theater managers of the period discovered and created transformative theatrical and social roles for actresses and wartime women characters. Women characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming into deeply patriotic British subjects, and this book interprets them as entertainment ...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.

The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, taking the usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate.

Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730 gathers together for the first time a sparkling selection of shorter fiction by the most successful women writers of the period, from Aphra Behn, the first important English female professional writer, to Penelope Aubin and Eliza Haywood, who with Daniel Defoe dominated prose fiction in the 1720s. The texts included were among the best-selling titles of their time, and played a key role in the expanding marke...

The 18th-century playwrights covered in this volume were born between 1699 and 1762. They left a large repertory of plays that remained popular until well into the 20th-century. Such standards as Sheridans The Rivals (1775) and Goldsmiths She Stoops to Conquer (1773) are a regular part of English and American theater. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of this era is the dominance of actor-playwrights, and even actor-playwright-managers. The...

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A Companion to the Eighteenth-century English Novel and Culture provides an up-to-date resource for the study of this subject, foregrounding those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century. It considers not only the canonical literature of the period, but also the non-canonical literature, and the contexts in which the eighteenth-century novel was produced. The volume is divided into three parts exploring f...

Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel is the first in-depth study of Rowe¿s prose fiction. A four-volume collection of her work was a bestseller for a hundred years after its publication, but today Rowe is a largely unrecognized figure in the history of the novel. Although her poetry was appreciated by poets such as Alexander Pope for its metrical craftsmanship, beauty, and imagery, by the time of her death in 1737 she...

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 cultural debate, and to women's studies. The essays give steady attention to the ways novels participate in social processes and the ways women perceived the public sphere and stubbornly attempted to participate in it. Rich contextualization and ad...

Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe's remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals new information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, his dangerous pen -- and his cat-and-mouse games with thos...

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 of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer. By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that ev...

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century English Novel and Culture provides an up-to-date resource for the study of this subject, foregrounding those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century. It considers not only the canonical literature of the period, but also the non-canonical literature, and the contexts in which the eighteenth-century novel was produced. The volume is divided into three parts exploring fo...

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 usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate.

An anthology that gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century.

An anthology of 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. It contains substantial part introductions, textual notes, bibliographical information, and biographical sketches that situate the poets and their writings within the cultural and political milieu in which they appeared.

Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape, the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry, same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men, and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only a...