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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 ...

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...

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...