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Janet Todd
In Sensibility, originally published in 1986, Janet Todd charts the growth and decline of sentimental writing as a privileged mode in the eighteenth century. She shows how sentimental writing is…
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Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This title demonstrates the sophistication and vitality of Aphra Behn’s genius. It…
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Todd Geller
"Janet Gets Blacked" describe the sexual adventures of Ken Morrison and his Korean wife, Janet Morrison. This story is entirely fictional and any resemblance to actual persons or events is…
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Jane Austen
Innovative essay by leading scholar, examining the Austen phenomenon, with newly edited Sanditon text.
First published in 1976, this was the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft’s works and most of the critical and biographical comments on her in English written between 1788…
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the fifth volume in a set of seven which comprises…
The education and training of women for their presumed role in life were of constant interest to the eighteenth century, which produced a spate of advice books and manuals describing…
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A literary novel of 1819 London and Venice: a successful Gothic novelist battles with psychological dependency and suffers the complexity of obsession.
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Both men and women took part in the education debate that culminated in the 1790s with Wollstonecraft, More and Edgeworth, but positions and arguments were laid down long before by…
Beginning with the reception of Aphra Behn’s work in her own time, which she herself helped to orchestrate by presenting herself as seductive woman, beleaguered lady writer and serious intellectual…
Joan revisits her life, blighted by WW2, drawing her daughter into her imaginings and desires. The boundaries between them collapse.
They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century-and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert…
Amusing and life-affirming novel from renowned Austen scholar, and novelist, for readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, A Man Called Ove, Saving Missy, includes interchanges with Jane Austen, and…
A unique peak into the lives of women authors like Abigail Adams, Aphra Behn, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Aphra Behn’s work has always been subject to critical fashion. The essays collected here represent the best of a range of contemporary critical views, discussing both Behn’s drama and her…
A must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd’s ‘naughty-Austen’ reimagining of the epistolary novel Lady Susan will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing.
Austen’s only…
A study of Aphra Behn’s drama, fiction, poetry and translation, as well as other aspects of her life, from her publishing struggles to her involvement in American slavery.
This book sets Aphra Behn in an historical context of political factions, theatre developments and colonial encounters, and includes chapters on each of the genres in which she wrote: drama…
Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, and covering topics from biography to portraits and agriculture to transport. This is a work…
This book traces the author’s life and times, her personal relationships, the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn shaped by her work, and…
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Literary tour de force set in London and Venice in 1819, written by an internationally renowned Cambridge scholar. The novel tells the story of a successful Gothic novelist battling with…
An exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.
Examining the writing of Aphra Behn, Frances Sheridan, Ann Radcliffe and Fanny Burney among others, this study describes the entry of women into literature as a profession in the 17th…
Aims to bring together works like A Vindication of the Rights of Men , The French Revolution , the author’s educational writings, her letters to Gilbert Imlay and William Godwin…
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a popular poet, author of the influential novel Oroonoko and one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre. This book contains a selection of…
Two centuries on from the first publication of Pride and Prejudice in 1813, this Companion investigates some of the sources of the novel’s power with a combination of original readings…
Janet Todd is one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers. The author discusses women and issues of gender from the Restoration to Romanticism. She examines the…
Brings together the pwerful works of a mother/daughter combination…These novels will prove a foundation for any college-level course on literature and feminism. –The Bookwatch A gripping tale of incestuous desire…vitalized…
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The thoroughly revised second edition of this innovative introduction by a leading scholar and editor of Austen’s work explains what students need to know about her novels, life, context and…
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the first volume in a set of seven which comprises…
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the second volume in a set of seven which comprises…
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the third volume in a set of seven which comprises…
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the fourth volume in a set of seven which comprises…
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the sixth volume in a set of seven which comprises…
Accused of transvestism and trickery, indicted for bigamy and hanged for robbery, Mary Carleton, the German Princess, was the most notorious female rogue of her time. Mary Frith, alias Mal…
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The complete edition of the works of Aphra Behn, including several new attributions.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the final volume in a set of seven which comprises…
