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  • A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh

    A Military Biography of Strategic Genius

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    In "A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborough," Daniel Defoe constructs a biographical account that intertwines the personal and military exploits of the Duke of Marlborough, emphasizing his strategic genius and moral integrity during the War of the Spanish Succession. Defoe's prose combines meticulous detail with a vivid narrative style, reflective of the ... Read more

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  • Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry

    Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre

    by Paula R. Backscheider ...
    "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).This major work offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in ... Read more

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  • Daniel Defoe

    Ambition and Innovation

    by Paula R. Backscheider ...
    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century

    An Anthology

    Edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Catherine E. Ingrassia ...
    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 fully the literary history of women writers.Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia demonstrate the enormous diversity of poetry produced during this time by organizing the poems in three broad ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Literature and the Arts

    Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn

    by Anna Battigelli, Steven N Zwicker, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Paul Hammond, Andrew Walkling, David Hopkins, Paula R. Backscheider, Ellen T Harris, Peter Sabor, Melissa A Schoenberger0, Cedric D Reverand II1 ...
    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 interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts transformed one another, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • World of Elizabeth Inchbald

    Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Daniel J. Ennis, E. Joe Johnson, Misty G. Anderson, Martha F. Bowden, Mita Choudhury, Robert Craig, W.B. Gerard, Randa Graves, Claudia Thomas Kairoff0, Cynthia J. Lowenthal1, Heather McPherson2, Hugh Reid3, John Vance4, Calhoun Winton5, Annibel Jenkins6, Paula R. Backscheider7, Don Russ8 ...
    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 Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the Restoration to the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Women in Wartime

    Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Paula R. Backscheider ...
    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 the war-saturated eighteenth century.During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. As the era unfolded, the theatre gradually discovered the potential in having ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Excursion

    by Frances Brooke ...
    Series series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
    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 polish of style." Today, Brooke is known primarily for The History of Emily Montague, one of the earliest novels about Canada, where she lived for a number of years. But it is her third novel, The ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry

    Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre

    by Paula R. Backscheider ...
    Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language AssociationThis major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions.Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Revising Women

    Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement

    Edited by Paula R. Backscheider ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel

    by Paula R. Backscheider ...
    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 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 ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Modern England

    Edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Timothy Dykstal ...
    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. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD